Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America's workers and America's families and America's small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they've worked a lifetime to achieve. 大家晚上好。今晚，经过近百年的谈论与挫败，经过数十年的尝试，以及一年持续不断的努力与辩论，美国国会终于宣告：美国的劳动者、美国的家庭和美国的小企业主，理应享有这样一种安心——在这个国家，无论是疾病还是意外，都不应危及他们用一生奋斗才换来的梦想。
Tonight, at a time when the pundits said it was no longer possible, we rose above the weight of our politics. We pushed back on the undue influence of special interests. We didn't give in to mistrust or to cynicism or to fear. Instead, we proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges. We proved that this government -- a government of the people and by the people -- still works for the people. 今晚，在评论员们说这一切已不再可能之时，我们超越了政治的重负。我们抵御了特殊利益集团的不当影响。我们没有向猜疑、犬儒主义或恐惧屈服。相反，我们证明了自己仍是一个能够成就大业、应对最艰巨挑战的民族。我们证明了这个政府——一个民有、民治的政府——依然为民所用。
I want to thank every member of Congress who stood up tonight with courage and conviction to make health care reform a reality. And I know this wasn't an easy vote for a lot of people. But it was the right vote. I want to thank Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her extraordinary leadership, and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn for their commitment to getting the job done. 我要感谢今晚每一位以勇气和信念挺身而出、使医改成为现实的国会议员。我知道，对许多人而言，这不是一次轻松的投票。但这是一次正确的投票。我要感谢南希·佩洛西议长的卓越领导，感谢多数党领袖斯坦尼·霍耶和多数党党鞭吉姆·克莱本为完成这项工作所作的承诺。
I want to thank my outstanding Vice President, Joe Biden, and my wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, for their fantastic work on this issue. I want to thank the many staffers in Congress, and my own incredible staff in the White House, who have worked tirelessly over the past year with Americans of all walks of life to forge a reform package finally worthy of the people we were sent here to serve. 我要感谢我杰出的副总统乔·拜登，以及我出色的卫生与公众服务部长凯瑟琳·西贝利厄斯，感谢他们在这个问题上的出色工作。我要感谢国会众多工作人员，以及白宫我那支令人难以置信的团队，他们在过去一年里不知疲倦地与各行各业美国人一起努力，最终打造出一项无愧于我们被派来服务的人民的改革方案。
Today's vote answers the dreams of so many who have fought for this reform. To every unsung American who took the time to sit down and write a letter or type out an e-mail hoping your voice would be heard -- it has been heard tonight. To the untold numbers who knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction that change in this country comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up -- let me reaffirm that conviction: This moment is possible because of you. 今天的投票回应了如此多为这项改革而奋斗之人的梦想。致每一位默默无闻的美国人——你们抽出时间坐下来写信、敲出一封电子邮件，希望自己的声音能被听到——今晚，它已被听到了。致无数敲开门、打起电话、抱着这样一个坚定信念去组织和动员的人——他们深信这个国家的变革不是自上而下，而是自下而上地到来——让我再次重申这一信念：此刻之所以成为可能，全是因为你们。
Most importantly, today's vote answers the prayers of every American who has hoped deeply for something to be done about a health care system that works for insurance companies, but not for ordinary people. For most Americans, this debate has never been about abstractions, the fight between right and left, Republican and Democrat -- it's always been about something far more personal. 最重要的是，今天的投票回应了每一位美国人的祈愿——他们深切期盼能对一个只为保险公司效力、却不为普通百姓效力的医疗体系有所作为。对大多数美国人而言，这场辩论从来就不是抽象的理念之争，不是左右之间、共和党与民主党之间的较量——它始终关乎某种更为切身的东西。
It's about every American who knows the shock of opening an envelope to see that their premiums just shot up again when times are already tough enough. It's about every parent who knows the desperation of trying to cover a child with a chronic illness only to be told "no" again and again and again. It's about every small business owner forced to choose between insuring employees and staying open for business. They are why we committed ourselves to this cause. 它关乎每一个这样的美国人——打开信封，发现自己的保费又涨了，而此时日子已经够艰难了；它关乎每一位这样的父母——为了给患有慢性病的孩子投保而绝望挣扎，却一次又一次被告知"不行"；它关乎每一位小企业主——被迫在为员工投保和维持营业之间做出抉择。他们，正是我们投身这一事业的原因。
Tonight's vote is not a victory for any one party -- it's a victory for them. It's a victory for the American people. And it's a victory for common sense. 今晚的投票不是任何一个政党的胜利——这是他们的胜利。这是美国人民的胜利。也是常识的胜利。
Now, it probably goes without saying that tonight's vote will give rise to a frenzy of instant analysis. There will be tallies of Washington winners and losers, predictions about what it means for Democrats and Republicans, for my poll numbers, for my administration. 现在，或许不言而喻的是，今晚的投票将引发一阵即时分析的狂热。人们会盘点华盛顿的赢家与输家，预测它对民主党人和共和党人、对我的民调数字、对我的政府意味着什么。
But long after the debate fades away and the prognostication fades away and the dust settles, what will remain standing is not the government-run system some feared, or the status quo that serves the interests of the insurance industry, but a health care system that incorporates ideas from both parties -- a system that works better for the American people. 但是，当辩论远去、预言消散、尘埃落定之后，屹立不倒的将不是某些人所恐惧的政府运营体系，也不是服务于保险业利益的现状，而是一个融合了两党理念的医疗体系——一个更好地服务于美国人民的体系。
If you have health insurance, this reform just gave you more control by reining in the worst excesses and abuses of the insurance industry with some of the toughest consumer protections this country has ever known -- so that you are actually getting what you pay for. 如果你已有医疗保险，这项改革通过以本国迄今最严厉的消费者保护措施遏制保险业最恶劣的过度行为和滥用，赋予了你更多掌控权——让你真正买到物有所值的服务。
If you don't have insurance, this reform gives you a chance to be a part of a big purchasing pool that will give you choice and competition and cheaper prices for insurance. And it includes the largest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in history -- so that if you lose your job and you change jobs, start that new business, you'll finally be able to purchase quality, affordable care and the security and peace of mind that comes with it. 如果你没有保险，这项改革让你有机会加入一个大型购买池，从而获得选择、竞争和更便宜的保险价格。它还包含历史上针对工薪家庭和小企业的最大规模医疗减税——这样一来，如果你失业、换工作或创办新企业，你终将能够购买到优质、可负担的医疗服务，以及随之而来的安全感与内心的安宁。
This reform is the right thing to do for our seniors. It makes Medicare stronger and more solvent, extending its life by almost a decade. And it's the right thing to do for our future. It will reduce our deficit by more than $100 billion over the next decade, and more than $1 trillion in the decade after that. 这项改革对我们的老年人来说是正确的选择。它使医疗保险计划更强大、财务更稳健，将其寿命延长了近十年。对我们的未来而言，它也是正确的选择。它将在未来十年使我们的赤字减少1000多亿美元，并在之后的十年再减少逾1万亿美元。
So this isn't radical reform. But it is major reform. This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system. But it moves us decisively in the right direction. This is what change looks like. 所以，这不是激进的改革。但它是一项重大的改革。这项立法并不能解决我们医疗体系的所有弊病。但它果断地推动我们朝着正确的方向前进。这就是变革的样子。
Now as momentous as this day is, it's not the end of this journey. On Tuesday, the Senate will take up revisions to this legislation that the House has embraced, and these are revisions that have strengthened this law and removed provisions that had no place in it. Some have predicted another siege of parliamentary maneuvering in order to delay adoption of these improvements. I hope that's not the case. 尽管今天意义重大，但这并不是这段旅程的终点。周二，参议院将审议众议院已接受的这项立法的修订案，这些修订强化了该法律，并删除了其中不应存在的条款。有人预言，为了推迟通过这些改进，将会出现又一轮议事程序上的攻防。我希望情况并非如此。
It's time to bring this debate to a close and begin the hard work of implementing this reform properly on behalf of the American people. This year, and in years to come, we have a solemn responsibility to do it right. 现在是结束这场辩论、开始代表美国人民妥善落实这项改革艰巨工作的时候了。今年以及未来的岁月里，我们肩负着把它做好的庄严责任。
Nor does this day represent the end of the work that faces our country. The work of revitalizing our economy goes on. The work of promoting private sector job creation goes on. The work of putting American families' dreams back within reach goes on. And we march on, with renewed confidence, energized by this victory on their behalf. 今天也不代表我们国家所面临工作的终结。振兴经济的工作仍在继续。促进私营部门创造就业的工作仍在继续。让美国家庭的梦想重新触手可及的工作仍在继续。我们继续前行，带着重拾的信心，因这一为他们而取得的胜利而充满力量。
In the end, what this day represents is another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American Dream. Tonight, we answered the call of history as so many generations of Americans have before us. When faced with crisis, we did not shrink from our challenge -- we overcame it. We did not avoid our responsibility -- we embraced it. We did not fear our future -- we shaped it. 归根结底，今天所代表的，是美国梦想基石上又一块被牢牢铺下的石头。今晚，如同我们之前的世世代代美国人那样，我们回应了历史的召唤。面对危机，我们没有在挑战面前退缩——我们克服了它。我们没有逃避自己的责任——我们拥抱了它。我们没有恐惧未来——我们塑造了它。
Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America. 谢谢你们，愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。