I see the United States has passed health care. Or that’s the impression I’m getting any way. It’s impossible to work out what the hell is going on over there. At the very least, it appears that something a bit like universal health care has sort of been passed. Whatever. It sounds to me like good news over all.
But Jeez, you underestimate the persistence this guy Obama at your peril don’t you? People have spent the last year denouncing him for being “weak” and “vacillating”. The right have relentlessly targeted his health care reform, calling it “socialist” and “communist”. For a while it looked like this campaign had worked, because a couple of months ago Obama lost his super-majority in the Senate. Who would have bet on health care reform passing then? Not me. But now Obama has achieved what so many Presidents have tried and failed to do. This is the most significant piece of social legislation in the US for the last 60 years. The bill is imperfect, but it’s a start. Once the principle of universal health coverage is established, it always proves wildly popular, and impossible to reverse.
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