Yes, the public fell for the scare tactics propaganda flooded upon us by the colluding insurance industry and medical providers, so elected officials were afraid to even utter the words "healthcare reform" again for at least another 15 years.  Insurance companies wanted to rein in provider's greed and control the system, and providers were afraid they wouldn't be millionaires. In those 15 years, the insurance industry took control of our entire healthcare system;  now medical providers are crying boohoo! and trapping us between them and the devil they danced with. (Alaska providers are the worst because they charge outrageously more and refuse to belong to medical insurance networks.) The added costs, stress, fear, and fractured medical care Americans receive now, trapped between our medical providers and insurance companies, is *bad healthcare*. Shame on the medical providers of this country for their participation in tanking healthcare reform efforts in the 1990s.