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これはニューズウイーク記者の個人ブログなのだけれど・・・
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Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:16 PM
The Numbers Don't Lie Howard Fineman
数字は嘘を言わないはずなのだが・・・
＊ニューズウイークはリベラル系週刊誌で、この記者もオバマ大統領と民主党の熱心な支持者。医療改革法の
支持者でも有るのだけれど、最近のラスムッセン世論調査、ギャラップ世論調査に現れている、アメリカ国民の
圧倒的な「医療改革不信」特に、医療の質やカバレッジの低下、医療コストの増加、財政赤字の増加を予想す
る回答をみて、大変憂慮している、というもの。
But that's where support, however ambivalent, ends. Americans think the law will harm the U.S. economy (44?34
percent), the overall quality of health care in the U.S. (55?29 percent), and the federal balance sheet (61?23
percent).
It's almost as bad when you ask voters how the law will affect them personally. There is lots of doubt and some
considerable belief (or hope) that the new law won't affect them at all. But respondents who said the measure
would affect them generally fear what that change would be.
この記者の結論：オバマ大統領は国民の心配を解消してくれると信じるが、しかしこの事態を何とかしないと・・・
I'm sure that Obama, who plays a deep and patient game, figures that the country?including independents, who
won it for him in 2008?will eventually come back, at least by 2012. But he's dug himself a partisan hole with this
big bill, and it'll be interesting to see him try to dig his way out.