Selon le Times, l'industrie pharmaceutique a obtenu de la Maison-Blanche l'assurance que ses sacrifices ne s'élèveraient pas à plus de 80 milliards de dollars sur dix ans dans le cadre de tout réforme. Cette entente, qui est contestée par l'aile gauche des démocrates du Congrès, pourrait alimenter la désillusion de plusieurs électeurs à la laquelle le chroniqueur Frank Rich fait allusion ici. Je cite dans le texte un extrait de sa chronique :
But this mood isn't just about the banks, Public Enemy No. 1. What the Great Recession has crystallized is a larger syndrome that Obama tapped into during the campaign. It's the sinking sensation that the American game is rigged - that, as the president typically put it a month after his inauguration, the system is in hock to "the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few" who have "run Washington far too long." He promised to smite them.
No president can do that alone, let alone in six months. To make Obama's goal more quixotic, the ailment that he diagnosed is far bigger than Washington and often beyond politics' domain. What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand, from commercial transactions as trivial as the sales of prime concert tickets to cultural forces as pervasive as the news media.