An edition of America's bitter pill
(2015)
America's bitter pill
money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
First edition.
by Steven Brill
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Brill expands his award-winning Time magazine piece on how the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing -- and failing to change -- rampant abuses in the healthcare industry.
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United States, Health insurance, Medical policy, Health care reform, Medical care, Law and legislation, Evaluation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States), Compulsory health insurance, Politics and government, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2015-01-25, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, United states, politics and government, 2009-2017, Health ServicesPlaces
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America's bitter pill: money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
2015, Random House
in English
- First edition.
081299695X 9780812996951
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Table of Contents
Looking up from the gurney
Center stage
Max, Barack, Hillary, Billy, and the gathering consensus
"This is what I thought the Senate would be like"
A new president commits, and his camp divides
Every lobbyist's favorite date
Punting to Capitol Hill
Deal time
Behind closed doors : White House turf wars, industry deals, and Senate wrangling
The Tea Party summer, "I'm feeling lucky," and "You lie"
Snow jobs, poison pills, and Botox
New trouble, then Mount Everest
In Washington "everything is slipping," but not in Kentucky
An Office becomes a Center
and it matters
Meantime, outside the beltway...
Waiting for Obamacare
A guy in jeans, red lights, and a "train wreck"
Two months to go
Thirty days to go
The crash
Meltdown in D.C., dancing on eight toes in Kentucky, and frustration in Ohio
The rescue
The finish line
Stuck in the jalopy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-490) and index.
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