[ti:Obama¡¯s Heath Care Victory Also a Political Risk]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.39]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.59]Earlier this week,
[00:10.58]President Obama won
[00:12.17]a major political victory
[00:14.26]with congressional passage
[00:16.72]of his health care reform plan.
[00:19.37]He and congressional Democrats
[00:22.26]made history
[00:23.47]with the reform legislation.
[00:25.46]Among other things,
[00:27.32]it will extend health insurance
[00:30.03]coverage to thirty-two million
[00:32.62]Americans now without it.
[00:35.38]Mister Obama had made
[00:37.72]health care his top goal
[00:39.96]after his election
[00:41.57]in two thousand eight.
[00:43.91]The president and his Democratic
[00:46.90]allies in Congress finally
[00:49.29]won the battle after more than a year.
[00:52.77]BARACK OBAMA: "We did not
[00:53.82]avoid our responsibility,
[00:55.12]we embraced it.
[00:56.61]We did not fear our future,
[00:59.36]we shaped it."
[01:01.55]How big a win this was
[01:03.69]for President Obama?
[01:05.08]Many political experts see
[01:07.32]passage of the health care
[01:09.96]reform bill as historic.
[01:12.27]Ross Baker is at Rutgers
[01:14.51]University in New Jersey.
[01:16.42]ROSS BAKER:" This is something,
[01:17.67]after all, that first came
[01:19.93]to the attention of the American public
[01:22.57]one hundred years ago
[01:24.11]when a national health insurance program
[01:26.50]was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt,
[01:29.16]and successive presidents, mostly Democrats
[01:32.90]but not all, have favored it."
[01:35.46]Stephen Hess is a Presidential Scholar
[01:38.46]at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
[01:41.30]STEPHEN HESS:"It's a big deal.
[01:42.70]How big a deal you have
[01:43.89]to measure piece by piece
[01:45.03]but clearly it is the first major
[01:47.39]change in our health care system
[01:49.33]since nineteen sixty-five
[01:51.38]so that's a long time coming."
[01:52.73]Mister Hess says the success
[01:55.78]of Barack Obama's presidency
[01:57.50]largely depended upon this vote.
[02:00.30]STEPHEN HESS:"This is a very great victory
[02:02.11]for President Obama.
[02:03.36]This was his first year
[02:04.76]in office and in many ways
[02:06.43]he really staked his whole
[02:09.09]four-year presidency on the success
[02:11.74]in this vote on healthcare."
[02:13.98]However, the new law is also
[02:16.19]considered a political risk.
[02:18.25]Most Democrats in Congress
[02:20.94]supported the measure.
[02:22.34]But all the Republicans opposed it.
[02:25.93]Opinion studies in recent days
[02:28.93]show the public is generally
[02:31.39]divided on the new law.
[02:33.31]A USA Today-Gallup poll shows
[02:37.70]a small majority believe
[02:39.69]the new health care plan
[02:41.70]is a good thing.
[02:42.84]The health care debate
[02:45.30]also fueled the rise of the
[02:47.99]so-called Tea Party movement.
[02:50.08]The loosely organized group
[02:52.87]of activists opposed the health
[02:55.80]care plan as too much government
[02:58.62]involvement in the economy.
[03:01.31]Congressional Democrats have been
[03:04.09]the targets of threats
[03:05.63]and destructive acts
[03:07.45]following the health care vote.
[03:09.88]House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says
[03:13.44]at least ten members of Congress
[03:16.04]have received threats to themselves
[03:19.68]or their family members in recent days.
[03:22.81]Republicans have promised
[03:25.50]to make the health care reform law
[03:27.74]a major issue in mid-term Congressional
[03:31.89]elections in November.
[03:33.93]Their goal is to defeat Democrats
[03:37.53]who supported the measure
[03:39.63]and then repeal, or cancel, the law.
[03:43.10]Republican Senator John McCain
[03:46.04]spoke to ABC News.
[03:48.10]JOHN MCCAIN: "The American people
[03:49.70]are very angry. And they do not like it
[03:51.54]and we are going to try to repeal this,
[03:54.40]and we are going to have a very
[03:56.59]spirited campaign coming up
[03:58.39]between now and November and there
[04:01.32]will be a very heavy price to pay for it."
[04:02.97]In addition, officials in more than
[04:05.55]ten states plan to fight
[04:07.70]the health care law in court.
[04:10.14]They say the law violates
[04:12.53]the United States Constitution.
[04:15.42]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:17.21]in VOA Special English,
[04:19.92]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:22.55]You can read, listen and comment
[04:26.29]on our reports on our Web site,
[04:29.22]51voa.com. I'm Steve Ember.
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