Blendon R J, Brodie M, Benson J
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 1995 Summer;14(2):7-23. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.14.2.7.
Within a twelve-month period public support for the Clinton plan fell from 71 percent to 43 percent. The administration lost substantial support among two politically important groups--the elderly and Democrats. This outcome was brought on by a series of key strategic and substantive misjudgments by the administration in the choices that it made in the development of its plan. These particular decisions inadvertently reinforced the public's deeply held cynicism that although health care reform was needed, the government in Washington would not do it right and would ultimately leave the middle class worse off than it was before.
在十二个月的时间里，公众对克林顿计划的支持率从71%降至43%。政府在两个政治上很重要的群体——老年人和民主党人——中失去了大量支持。这一结果是由政府在制定计划过程中做出的一系列关键战略和实质性误判导致的。这些特定的决策无意中强化了公众根深蒂固的怀疑态度，即尽管需要医疗保健改革，但华盛顿的政府不会把它做好，最终会让中产阶级的处境比以前更糟。
