Much of the global reaction to the passage of U.S. health care reform revolves around the clout it gives President Obama on the international stage.
In her article about the president’s bruising legislative victory, Sabine Muscat of the Financial Times Deutschland writes that the passage of U.S. health care reform not only saved President Obama’s neck domestically, it gives hope to his global partners, who were beginning to wonder whether they could count on him to address a complicated global agenda.
For the Financial Times Deutschland, Sabine Muscat writes in part:
A president unable to realize what he himself declared to be his most important issue would lose more than the respect of his voters. His reputation abroad would also have been damaged, since his negotiating partners would have to assume that he would be unable to get international agreements through Congress.
Now Democrats need to regain control of the health care reform debate – control that was seized in recent months by critics. In particular, Democrats from conservative areas of the country have very little time to explain to constituents why they voted “yes” – and why giving the population access to health insurance not only doesn’t lead directly to socialism, but increases the competitiveness for any industrialized country. The most substantial American social legislation in many decades has been passed. The struggle to interpret it has therefore only just begun.
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