Hillary's attempts went down for the same reason Obama succeeded.  1) The Democrats did not control the Congress.  2) She alienated the healthcare industry and tried to put it all together without their buy-in.  3) The healthcare industry put ads out with a couple which said how evil her system was going to be.  The Harry and Louise" ads, paid for by the Health Insurance Association of America, which depicted a middle-class couple despairing over the plan's complex, bureaucratic nature.

  Time, CBS News, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor ran stories questioning whether there really was a health-care crisis.  Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan qualified his agreement that "there is no health care crisis" by stating "there is an insurance crisis" but also indicated "anyone who thinks [the Clinton health care plan] can work in the real world as presently written isn't living in it."