by VIJAY PRASHAD
The Health Care Reform Bill is a remarkable achievement though the reform is only a moderate one.
Barack Obama did not need the endorsement. But he got it anyway. A day after the final passage of the Health Care Reform Bill, Cuban leader Fidel Castro wrote of it as a “miracle”. What was miraculous about it, Castro wrote, is that “it is really incredible that 234 years after the Declaration of Independence… the government of that country has approved medical attention for the majority of its citizens, something that Cuba was able to do half a century ago.”
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