New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Obama's Health Care Fantasies

June 15, 2009

It's been 15 years since President Clinton's health care reform plan went down to defeat, and the problems it was supposed to fix have only gotten worse. Costs have soared, the number of uninsured has risen, and public dissatisfaction has mounted. Has the time for government-run health care arrived? According to President Obama, "the stars may be aligned here."

But as Steve Chapman writes, don't bet on it. The Clinton plan lost partly because Americans were not willing to accept that you can't have it all. From everything that has occurred since then, it's apparent they are still unwilling.

Read all about it here.