medical policy

Examines the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as told by those involved in its creation, and reviews the history and impact of this legislation.

Provides a brief overview of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, covering the bill itself and its implementation over the last half decade.

Explores pros and cons of several issues related to obesity including; who s at fault, government prevention, and effective treatments. Aligns with Common Core Language Arts Anchor Standards for Reading Informational Text, Speaking and Listening. Text contains critical thinking components and argumentative techniques for social issues and history. Includes bibliography, glossary, index, additional resources and instructions for writing an opinion-based essay.

"America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths of our nation's healthcare crisis in his trailblazing Time magazine Special Report, which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. Now he broadens his lens and delves deeper, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners. It's a fly-on-the-wall account of the fight, amid an onslaught of lobbying, to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America's largest, most dysfunctional industry--an industry larger than the entire economy of France. It's a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his Time cover story continues, despite Obamacare.

"[A] narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and ... how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry."--Dust jacket.

Explores the importance of philanthropy in reasearching diseases, developing vaccines, and teaching people about basic hygeine in order to stop the spread of disease around the world.

Contains over three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the history, politics, and terminology of the debate over health care in America.

Provides an overview of how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 came to be, and what Affordable Care means for the United States. Explains the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives, and the deals Democrats cut with interest groups. Discusses how the new legislation will help the average American, what it will cost, who will pay, and what comes next as reform occurs nationally.

"In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues.Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990s--and of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt Romney's reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continues--a penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics"--Provided by publisher.