health care reform

Discusses universal health care in the United States, including both sides of the argument, its future, and more.

Examines a variety of topics related to a universal health care system in the US, highlighting both sides of each topic through a collection of essays. Includes resources for further information.

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.

"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.

Provides a comprehensive overview of issues related to healthcare reform. Presents a historical overview of the topic; discusses related problems, controversies, and solutions; offers differing perspectives; and includes profiles of involved individuals. Also features data and primary source documents, resources for further study, a chronology, and a glossary of terms.

"[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.

Includes a wide range of opinions surrounding issues concerning The Affordable Care Act.

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.