Oblivious youth.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

By now, practically everyone agrees that the Obama administration misread history in thinking that the lesson to be learned from the failure of Clinton's health care bill was not to create its own bill. The reason the Clinton plan failed was not because it originated in the White House but because it was too complicated to explain.

The greatest casualty of Obama's failure to introduce his own bill in order to make clear from the beginning the specifics of his program has been the loss of support among senior citizens. Numerous early reports that "savings would come from Medicare" and the lack of information--or the misinformation--about the...