The part looks tight for the Obama administration

The part looks tight for the Obama administration. In the aftermath of the brutal disappearance of Senator Edward Kennedy, one of its main allies on the subject, the White House fourbit weapons to boost its reform of the system of medical coverage that threatens to get bogged down. Originally scheduled for early August, the adoption of the reform by Congress has been extended to fall to a proclamation by the President late October. Despite the misgivings of some Democrats elected to the legislative calendar, Barack Obama j. priority reform. But with a forecast cost estimated at 1,000 billion over ten years by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), reform remains at high risk in times of galloping deficit.

"After having worked for over thirty years on the subject, Edward Kennedy could bring the various factions of the Democratic Party." "I don't know if an other elected official has the same influence in the Congress", told CNN the Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, close to Ted Kennedy. In fact, the pro-democracy camp takes very seriously the question of the succession of the "lion of the Senate," which the sixtieth seat could prove crucial in the legislative battle. Even if the election of his successor will not take place before January 19, Ted Kennedy himself had requested a change in the law of the State of Massachusetts to proceed with the appointment of a replacement in the Senate acting. But in the opinion of many elected officials, the disappearance of the Massachusetts Senator could jeopardize the adoption of an ambitious reform permanently undermining the meagre chances of a bipartisan agreement.

Race against the clock

"We will cut hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in federal programs of health, such as Medicare and Medicaid and subsidies unjustified to insurance companies, which do nothing to improve care and any to improve their profits," recently wrote Barack Obama in a gallery in the "New York Times". After surveys of the summer, which reported a net erosion of the confidence, and the recent upward revision of forecasts of deficit accumulated over ten years (to 9,000 billion), the democratic administration wants to do everything possible to reassure opinion in the field of savings. But the message is double-edged, and the ambiguity of the Obama reform is that it claims both cut in the costs of the system and guarantee medical coverage to the 46 million Americans who are lacking. According to the latest figures from the Council of Economic Advisers, in the absence of reform, the cost of U.S. health care system is expected to increase 18 of GDP today to 34 of GDP in 2040. PIs: according to a recent study published by "the american Journal of medicine", more than 60 of bankruptcy personal American relate aujourd'hui to unpaid medical bills, sales up 50 over six years.

That is why the Obama team is ready to engage in a race against the clock. Unlike Bill Clinton, who had attempted, unsuccessfully, to impose its own reform of health at the Congress in 1993, the tactic of Barack Obama is to leave in large part the Congress "write" its partition.