Inside National Health Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside National Health Reform write by John E. McDonough. This book was released on 2012-09-03. Inside National Health Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law. An account of the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when the bill was signed into law before anyone had a chance to digest the document. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, "Inside National Health Reform" provides essential information for Americans to review the governmental processes and politics in enacting this legislation.
Health Care Reform and American Politics
Health Care Reform and American Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health Care Reform and American Politics write by Lawrence R. Jacobs. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Health Care Reform and American Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich. How did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does Affordable Care mean-and what comes next? In this updated edition of Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol-two of the nation's leading experts on politics and health care policy-provide a concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and who will pay. In a new section, they also analyze the impact the Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law. Above all, they explain what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states. Affordable Care still faces challenges at the state level despite the Court ruling. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans learn what it can do for them. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care
Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care write by Stuart Altman. This book was released on 2011-09-27. Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essential reading for every American who must navigate the US health care system. Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—internationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing stories in the hundred-year saga leading up to the landmark 2010 legislation. Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and good old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within a historical perspective. The authors describe the sometimes haphazard, piece-by-piece construction of the nation’s health care system, from the early efforts of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to the later additions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. In each case, they examine the factors that led to success or failure, often by illuminating little-known political maneuvers that brought about immense shifts in policy or thwarted herculean efforts at reform. The authors look at key moments in health care history: the Hill–Burton Act in 1946, in which one determined poverty lawyer secured the rights of the uninsured poor to get hospital care; the "three-layer cake" strategy of powerful House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills to enact Medicare and Medicaid under Lyndon Johnson in 1965; the odd story of how Medicare catastrophic insurance was passed by Ronald Reagan in 1988 and then repealed because of public anger in 1989; and the fact that the largest and most expensive expansion of Medicare was enacted by George W. Bush in 2003. President Barack Obama is the protagonist in the climactic chapter, learning from the successes and failures chronicled throughout the narrative. The authors relate how, in the midst of a worldwide financial meltdown, Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to accomplish what other presidents had tried and failed to achieve for nearly one hundred years.
Inside National Health Reform
Inside National Health Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside National Health Reform write by John E. McDonough. This book was released on 2011-08-02. Inside National Health Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law.
Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health Care Reform write by Jonathan Gruber. This book was released on 2011-12-20. Health Care Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A graphic explanation of the PPACA act"--Provided by publisher.
