Obama's future depends upon his nation's health

American voters want healthcare overhauled. But reform is a high stakes game that can wound the president American healthcare remains a mystery to most Europeans. Many of us are vaguely aware that there is a problem with the US system, but the subject is extremely complex, of almost exclusively domestic interest and, to most people in the news-as-entertainment age, boring. Barack Obama only has to swat a fly to get a hundred times more coverage in the European media than he will get when he tries to push his healthcare reform plan through Congress this summer. Be in no doubt, though, that the fate of his reform plan will define the fate of his presidency. It will do so because of two overwhelming reasons. First, because the US healthcare system is so huge. And second, because it has defied the efforts of all those who have... [read full story]                    

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