H EALTH CARE REFORM: TIME FORA CHECKUP?

摘要

Will it stay or will it go? Despite being signed into law in March 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains politically radioactive. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, a critic of President Bill Clinton's health care reform proposal nearly 20 years ago, says it is time to "repeal and replace Obama-care with patient-centered, free-market reforms." Mitt Romney, who himself has been roundly criticized by Republican competitors for health care legislation passed in Massachusetts, says he wants to "stop that law in its tracks." For his part, President Obama recently began to embrace the term Obamacare, telling a campaign stop in August: "I have no problem with folks saying 'Obama Cares.' I do care. If the other side wants to be the folks who don't care, that's fine with me."