Why public support for health reform faltered

Kaiser Health News staff writers report, "As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to pass a health plan with important benefits for the average American. … But a year later, the health care proposals in Congress lack many of those easy-to-sell benefits, which became victims of the lengthy process of trying to win over wavering lawmakers, appeasing powerful special-interest groups and addressing concerns about the heavily burdened Treasury" (Rau, Carey, Appleby and Galewitz, 1/20). Read entire story.

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This article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.