America's bitter pill
Subtitle: money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
By: Steven Brill
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780812996951; 9780812996968
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: United States; Health insurance; Medical policy; Health care reform; Medical care; Law and legislation; Evaluation; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-490) and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking up from the gurney; title: Center stage; title: Max, Barack, Hillary, Billy, and the gathering consensus; title: "This is what I thought the Senate would be like"; title: A new president commits, and his camp divides; title: Every lobbyist's favorite date; title: Punting to Capitol Hill; title: Deal time; title: Behind closed doors : White House turf wars, industry deals, and Senate wrangling; title: The Tea Party summer, "I'm feeling lucky," and "You lie"; title: Snow jobs, poison pills, and Botox; title: New trouble, then Mount Everest; title: In Washington "everything is slipping," but not in Kentucky; title: An Office becomes a Center; title: and it matters; title: Meantime, outside the beltway...; title: Waiting for Obamacare; title: A guy in jeans, red lights, and a "train wreck"; title: Two months to go; title: Thirty days to go; title: The crash; title: Meltdown in D.C., dancing on eight toes in Kentucky, and frustration in Ohio; title: The rescue; title: The finish line; title: Stuck in the jalopy.