Health care

Ahora que Obama ha conseguido su empeño histórico, a sus seguidores nos viene bien un poco de escepticismo para aguar el entusiasmo. Quién mejor que Ross Douthat, mi conservador favorito. Su artículo es un ejercicio de ya veremos que se puede leer como la previa de un rotundo yo ya lo dije, si la cosa sale tan mal como podría salir. Pero a ver qué columnista español (de políticos ni hablamos) firmaría esta conclusión leal, sensata y patriótica:

Yes, liberals have wrung their hands over the compromises required to pass the bill. But nothing has dislodged their fundamental assumption — an assumption straight out of the golden age of ’60’s liberalism — that a bill this costly, this complicated and this risky can be made to work, so long as the right people are in charge of implementing it.
As a conservative, I suspect they’re wrong. But now that the bill has passed, as a citizen of the United States, I dearly hope they’re right. Indeed, I hope that 20 years from now, in an America that’s healthier, richer and more solvent than today, a liberal can brandish this column and say “I told you so.” Because the alternative would mean that we’re all about to be very sorry, and for a very long time to come.