Investors are watching closely to see if Italy can form a stable government to continue on the course of reform.
That means I care about doctors and other medical professionals, hospitals, Medicare, HMOs, and of course, health reform.
"The reform course in France seems to have floundered, " Germany's Jens Weidmann said.
When Bill Clinton got hammered on health care, he reverted to centrist course and passed welfare reform.
Now, both during and after last week's summit, Republicans in Congress insisted that the only acceptable course on health care reform is to start over.
An integral part of that course will be health care reform--and she will work closely with my secretary of Health and Human Services on that issue.
Of course, were Italy to reform its electoral laws and its constitution, as Mr Prodi and many others would like, people like Mr Bertinotti would be shorn of most of their power.
And the heart of his programme, of course, is campaign-finance reform.
To ensure that his precious reform package stays on course, Mr Hashimoto has been adamant about keeping a number of key ministers and officials in place.
America needs the leadership of these maverick new leaders to set a new course on fiscal policy, election reform, and gun violence, among many other pressing issues.
And, of course, that there's immigration reform in this country and all the young people that I work with, which are mostly immigrants, know that's not going around.
The real solution, of course, would be a comprehensive immigration reform that recognises that the flow of migrants will never stop while a worker can earn more in an hour in the Giumarra fields than in a whole day in Mexico.
Of course, whenever our nation is undertaking fundamental reform, legal challenges like this are nothing new.
And of course, they sometimes cite the uncertainties of health reform.
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Of course, there are those who will never support immigration reform no matter what changes we make.
The problem, of course, is that tax hikes crowd out and displace spending reform.
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And of course a lot of power is needed to start the structural reform of the economy.
The change of course signalled by the government's modest labour-market reform in June will surely have to be taken further.
At a rally on Sunday, Obama focused almost exclusively on issues such as health care reform, his job growth strategy and, of course, the economy.
Of course neither Frank nor Dodd are sinless heroes in the fight for financial reform.
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Blair is proposing to set a course for globalisation by speeding up the free-market process and the reform of its social model... reducing Brussels to the role of a bursar serving the states.
The fact that health care reform has represented a pressing issue for the nation over the course of a century would indeed make a decision to strike down the law all the more jarring.
The reform dodges the thorn of compulsion by nudging people towards the desired course of action.
Such a reform would not eliminate the need for serious spending cuts, of course, nor would it take tax increases off the table.
Of course, none of these reforms will even happen if we don't also reform how we work with one another.
Of course, any forthcoming proposal from Bowles-Simpson faces the same hurdles as any other prospective tax reform: partisan politics.
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Of course, passing an amendment and getting it ratified by the states would take years, but Gephardt insists that reform in the short term is necessary and that his embrace of a constitutional amendment is not a diversion.
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