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President-elect Barack Obama waits to take the oath of office, and as predictably as sap rises in the New England spring, health care professionals and policymakers are posing the quadrennial questions: Will this be the time? Have Americans finally elected a president who can repair our ailing health care system?

Each presidential election sends analysts searching for lessons that might be gleaned from past — and usually futile — presidential attempts at health care reform. President Bill Clinton's maladroit effort to enact the Health Security Act in 1993 and 1994 offers a wealth of cautions about how not to manage . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Conventional Story of Medicare and Medicaid

The Presidential Role in Medicare and Medicaid Revisited

Lessons of Medicare and Medicaid

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From the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (D.B.); and the Department of Political Science, Brown University, Providence, RI (J.M.).

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