The forward and backward processes in health policy planning

This is a study of a legislative conflict over the National Health Insurance policy played out in the 96th Congress of the United States. It attempted to find out whether the policy aimed at restructuring the U.S. health care system was possible. Since previous analysis concluded that the Kennedy NHI plan was such an innovative policy the questions examined here were: (1) Would the Kennedy plan emerge as the adopted national policy? (2) If not, what plan could be a compromise proposal?