Other Voices

“We also can't mark this day without noting it couldn't have happened without the complicity of America's biggest healthcare lobbies, including Big Pharma, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, the Business Roundtable and such individual companies as Wal-Mart. They hope to get more customers, or to reduce their own costs, but in the end they have merely made themselves more vulnerable to the gilded clutches of the political class.”

—Wall Street Journal

“Just as Social Security grew from a modest start in 1935 to become a bedrock of the nation's retirement system, this is a start on healthcare reform, not the end. ... A lot will depend ... on how healthcare professionals and institutions respond to the challenge of changing their ways. ... Our hope and belief is that this reform will in the end accomplish its great objectives. Right now, the good news for all Americans is that despite all the politics and the obstructionism, the process has finally begun.”

—New York Times

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