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The Health of American Politics

When the US Congress approved Barack Obama’s plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960’s. It also showed that America’s political system is not as broken as critics who draw analogies to the fall of Rome or other empires would have us believe.

CAMBRIDGE – When the United States Congress approved President Barack Obama’s plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960’s. While Republican opposition remains strong, the law was a major domestic political victory for Obama.

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