Unit 11 Health and Fitness CATTI三级笔译.docVIP

幻灯片1 Unit 11 Health and Fitness I. Text Translation Analysis II. Translation Technique: Division III. Classroom Exercises and Comment IV. Comment on the After-Class Exercise 幻灯片2 Healthcare Reform During the past two decades, all of the industrialized nations have enacted some form of healthcare reform. America is no exception. Just a few years ago, the U. S. was consumed by a vigorous public debate about healthcare. In the end, the debate reaffirmed that the U. S. would retain its essentially market-based system. 医疗改革 过去二十年来，所有的工业国家都实施过某种形式的医疗改革，美国也不例外。就在几年前，美国掀起了一场轰轰烈烈的关于医疗改革的公众辩论。最终，这场辩论重新确认美国应继续保留原有的基本上以市场为导向的医疗体制。 幻灯片3 Instead of reform imposed from the top down, the American healthcare system underwent some rather profound self-reform, driven by powerful market forces. The market—not government—managed to wring inflation out of the private healthcare market. 美国的医疗体制未曾进行过自上而下的改革，而是在强大的市场推动下经历了一些深刻的自我变革。私营医疗保健市场的水分，是依靠市场、而不是政府的作用来挤掉的。 幻灯片4 Today, it appears that U. S. healthcare costs are again on the rise. At the same time, American patients—like patients elsewhere—are becoming more vocal about restrictions many face in their healthcare plans. Talk of government-led reform is once again in the air. 如今，美国的医疗费用似乎再次呈上涨趋势。于此同时，和其他国家的病患一样，美国的病患对于他们医疗保健计划中所受到的种种限制也越来越怨声载道。让政府来领导医疗改革的话题又一次被提起。 幻灯片5 We must think twice, though, before embarking on “reform” if that means imposing further restrictions on our healthcare markets. The more sensible course is to introduce policies that make the market work better—that is, to the advantage of consumers. 然而，政府所主导的医疗改革如果仅仅意味着加大对医疗市场的限制的话，那我们可要三思而后行了。其实，更为明智的做法是制定一些对消费者更为有利的政策，改善市场的运作。 幻灯片6 I base this argument on our company’s decades of experience in healthcare systems around the world, which has given us a unique global perspective on the right and wrong way to reform healthcare. The wrong way is to impose layer after layer of regulation and restrictions. We have seen this approach tried in many countries, and we have