Yet his proposals are meeting strong opposition from fiscally conservative Democrats as well as from Republicans, owing to their potential impact on future fiscal deficits. Because those deficits are the primary cause of America’s current-account deficit – and thus of global imbalances – the health-care debate’s outcome will affect governments and investors around the world.
坎布里奇——自从年内早些时候就任总统以来，巴拉克·奥巴马就将首要的立法重点放在了改革美国医疗体系的筹资方式上。但他的提案却由于对未来财政赤字的潜在影响而遭到强烈抵制，而抵制力量主要来自在财政问题上偏于保守的民主党和共和党。上述赤字是造成美国经常账户赤字（进而造成全球不平衡）的主要因素，因此医疗改革辩论的结果将会影响到世界各国政府和投资者。