The revolution that wasn't: health care's role in the 1992 elections

Ever since Harris Wofford won a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania in November 1991 largely by calling for national health insurance, health reform has been considered a "top-tier" issue. But post-1992 election polls reveal that while Americans have remained disenchanted with the current system, they have not refined their views on reform much further. Because the issue is so complex and because specific proposals involve so many trade-offs, the best course of action for candidates in the 1992 races was to echo voter dissatisfaction and signal a desire for reform without stating specifics.