最后,那些声称医疗改革会令财政赤字规模扩大的言论是否成真了呢?实际上,赤字规模已经在不断下降,国会预算办公室(Congressional Budget Office)最近再次确认,撤销奥巴马医改法案只会增加,而非减少财政赤字。
Put all these things together, and what you have is a portrait of policy triumph — a law that,despite everything its opponents have done to undermine it, is achieving its goals, costing lessthan expected, and making the lives of millions of Americans better and more secure.
所有这些放在一起,我们看到的是一项政策取得胜利的图景——尽管反对者想尽办法从中破坏,它还是实现了许多预定目标,以比预期更低的成本改善了数以百万计的美国人的生活,给予他们更多保障。
Now, you might wonder why a law that works so well and does so much good is the object ofso much political venom — venom that is, by the way, on full display in Justice AntoninScalia’s dissenting opinion, with its rants against “interpretive jiggery-pokery. But whatconservatives have always feared about health reform is the possibility that it might succeed,and in so doing remind voters that sometimes government action can improve ordinaryAmericans’ lives.
现在,你可能会纳闷,为何成效如此好、利好如此多的一项法案会召来那么多恶毒的政治攻击——顺便说一句,这种攻击在安东宁·斯卡利亚大法官(Justice Antonin Scalia)最近对“诡辩解释(interpretive jiggery-pokery)发出的激烈反对意见中体现得淋漓尽致。保守派一直担心的是,医改可能会成功,并由此提醒选民,有时候政府行为的确能提高普通美国人的生活水平。
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