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In traditionally boring for the Christmas and New Year”s policy a week “work” seems to have only American statesmen. The main focus was on the Senate, where virtually until the eve of the Nativity Catholic delayed a vote on the main internal political project of the Obama administration - health care reform.
After a very small margin of reform in the House of Representatives, the vote in the Senate promised to be hot. The expectations were not disappointed: the Democrats had great difficulty to collect the necessary 60 votes out of 100 for passage of the document, and the vote itself took place only on Christmas Eve, despite previously expressed by the President hopes to sign a document before the New Year. Now specially created commission will work on a consensus version of the document, bringing together the positions of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Legislators, mostly divided in opinion on the final “cost” of reform for the budget and the categories of taxpayers, which will form the main load increase tax rates.
In the final version of health reform will have to pay from 871 billion to 1.052 trillion dollars. Taxes will increase for the citizens whose incomes exceed 200-500 thousand dollars a year, but in exchange for 31 million Americans currently without health insurance receive it within 10 years. Will be expanded scope of public insurance packages for certain categories of citizens. In general, the reform will include three basic stages: introduction of compulsory health insurance for all citizens, improving the medical care for those who have already bought a policy, insurers and the establishment of stock exchanges, where a consumer could choose insurance on like its price. Funding will be partly due to the budget, partly due to reallocation of funds within the health system. According to the calculations of the presidential administration reform will reduce the budget deficit by 130 billion dollars over the first 10 years, and up to 1.3 trillion over the next 20 years. Critics of the reform on the contrary fear that instead of saving the reform will lead to further inflate the already huge public debt.
Nevertheless, even with such a small margin in the Senate, the fact of approval of the reform, legislators have considered to be an accomplishment of Barack Obama in the first year of his presidency. In general, the “first year” president-reformer is estimated rather contradictory. On the one hand, to face a certain loss of confidence of voters that show virtually all opinion polls and criticism, not only from political opponents, but also from fellow party members. Republicans, in general, not too satisfied “rastratnoy” social policy, tax increases and the continued growth of public debt. Democrats believe that the foreign policy they have, at best, a follower of Bush, but on the domestic market - a supporter of corporate interests. On the other hand, it should be noted that such a fierce critic Obama - in many ways the high price that the president must now pay for its more than a successful campaign: voters consider themselves to be deceived in their expectations too high. Either way, the implementation of the same health-care reform, further policies to resolve the financial crisis and Afghanistan, as the main foreign policy objectives - these are the issues that will be key for U.S. president in the coming year.
Other events of the week:
| Europe. Croatia |
Croatia passed the first round of presidential elections. Largest number of votes gained opposition candidate, Ivo Josipović and independent candidate for mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandich. |
Serbia
| Serbia filed an official application for accession to the EU. Proposed date of entry 2014-2018 gg. |
next week is expected to:
| Europe. |
Presidency of the EU moves from the Czech Republic to Spain. |
Europe: Investors go for the weekend with a nice potyazhelevshimi purses
Asia: investors are happy to have summed up the year
Latin America: another rise before the holidays
United States: the good macroeconomic indicators did not keep indices from the fall
Europe: prices of raw materials and statistics from the U.S. - another guarantee of success
Asia: bidders have relied on raw
Latin America: optimism prevail
United States: the players are reluctant to fix the profit before the end of the year
Europe: posleprazdnichnaya session ended with a quiet growth
Week on the world stage: United States approved a reform of health
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In traditionally boring for the Christmas and New Year”s policy a week “work” seems to have only American statesmen. The main focus was on the Senate, where virtually until the eve of the Nativity Catholic delayed a vote on the main internal political project of the Obama administration - health care reform.
After a very small margin of reform in the House of Representatives, the vote in the Senate promised to be hot. The expectations were not disappointed: the Democrats had great difficulty to collect the necessary 60 votes out of 100 for passage of the document, and the vote itself took place only on Christmas Eve, despite previously expressed by the President hopes to sign a document before the New Year. Now specially created commission will work on a consensus version of the document, bringing together the positions of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Legislators, mostly divided in opinion on the final “cost” of reform for the budget and the categories of taxpayers, which will form the main load increase tax rates.
In the final version of health reform will have to pay from 871 billion to 1.052 trillion dollars. Taxes will increase for the citizens whose incomes exceed 200-500 thousand dollars a year, but in exchange for 31 million Americans currently without health insurance receive it within 10 years. Will be expanded scope of public insurance packages for certain categories of citizens. In general, the reform will include three basic stages: introduction of compulsory health insurance for all citizens, improving the medical care for those who have already bought a policy, insurers and the establishment of stock exchanges, where a consumer could choose insurance on like its price. Funding will be partly due to the budget, partly due to reallocation of funds within the health system. According to the calculations of the presidential administration reform will reduce the budget deficit by 130 billion dollars over the first 10 years, and up to 1.3 trillion over the next 20 years. Critics of the reform on the contrary fear that instead of saving the reform will lead to further inflate the already huge public debt.
Nevertheless, even with such a small margin in the Senate, the fact of approval of the reform, legislators have considered to be an accomplishment of Barack Obama in the first year of his presidency. In general, the “first year” president-reformer is estimated rather contradictory. On the one hand, to face a certain loss of confidence of voters that show virtually all opinion polls and criticism, not only from political opponents, but also from fellow party members. Republicans, in general, not too satisfied “rastratnoy” social policy, tax increases and the continued growth of public debt. Democrats believe that the foreign policy they have, at best, a follower of Bush, but on the domestic market - a supporter of corporate interests. On the other hand, it should be noted that such a fierce critic Obama - in many ways the high price that the president must now pay for its more than a successful campaign: voters consider themselves to be deceived in their expectations too high. Either way, the implementation of the same health-care reform, further policies to resolve the financial crisis and Afghanistan, as the main foreign policy objectives - these are the issues that will be key for U.S. president in the coming year.
Other events of the week:
next week is expected to:
Europe: Investors go for the weekend with a nice potyazhelevshimi purses
Asia: investors are happy to have summed up the year
Latin America: another rise before the holidays
United States: the good macroeconomic indicators did not keep indices from the fall
Europe: prices of raw materials and statistics from the U.S. - another guarantee of success
Asia: bidders have relied on raw
Latin America: optimism prevail
United States: the players are reluctant to fix the profit before the end of the year
Europe: posleprazdnichnaya session ended with a quiet growth