Hurry up with healthcare reform

Following the passing of the healthcare reform bill by the US House of Representatives the US Senate has now decided to discuss US President Barack Obama's healthcare reform. The liberal Financial Times Deutschland praises Obama's success but warns: "Obama can forget his original goal of having it ready by the end of the year. And the more time passes the more difficult it will be for the president to reach a compromise on the content that retains something of his original goal of providing health insurance for all Americans. It is above all his own democratic camp that Obama must convince. He still has the majority in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. But the congressional elections take place in autumn 2010, and democratic senators from conservative states in particular … will express their reservations about the healthcare reform all the more vocally as those elections draw nearer."

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