The current moment in U.S. health care reform is eerily reminiscentof the lead-up to the 1992 election. Then, as now, the countrywas facing an economic downturn and had been engaged in a warin the Middle East that threatened to distract attention fromdomestic matters. There was also unusually broad agreement amongAmericans and the presidential candidates that health care arrangementsneeded reform — a negative consensus that still holdstoday. At the end of the 1992 primary season, as now, Americansranked health care among the four most important problems facingthe country.
Dr. Jacobs is the director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and a professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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