Finally, Obama’s Quaker-meeting approach to legislating health-care reform has produced, of all things, health-care reform. For the end of the story we will have to wait and see what emerges from the House-Senate reconciliation process.
最后，奥巴马以各抒己见、寻求共识的方式，实实在在地推动了医疗体系改革。虽然最终结果还要看参众两院的妥协，但肯定不会允许保险公司以现状为由逃避承保责任。现有方案引入了个人委托机制，从而可以避免逆向选择导致整体医疗服务质量下降的现象。它还补贴穷人支付保费。虽然它可能放弃了不少人支持的公立保险补充制度，但这份改革方案仍是一个了不起的成就。