Hijacked
Subtitle: the road to single payer in the aftermath of stolen health care reform
By: John Geyman
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Monroe, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781567514025; 9781567514032
Subjects: Single-payer health care; Health Insurance; Health care reform; Health Care Reform
Other titles: Road to single payer in the aftermath of stolen health care reform
Description: Provides an overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and explains why the author believes it is not an effective way to reform the health care system in America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Yes we can" meets Machiavelli : shifting corporate alliances for and against reform; title: Corruption of the political process : how industry shepherds its legislators; title: Who framed health care reform? How the public was misled on issues and policy alternatives; title: The three Ds : distortion, disinformation & deception : their use by the left and right for and against reform; title: Media and money : broadcasting corporate values; title: Missing in action : public opinion and the public interest; title: Bailout under a Blue Cross : the tortuous path to a gutted bill in Congress; title: Health care reform 2010 : better than nothing?; title: Wall Street wins, main street loses : lessons from this legislative train wreck; title: New realities : a perfect storm ahead; title: Déjà vu all over again : a century of health care reform attempts in America; title: Nobody will save us but ourselves : a road map to real reform; title: Single payer NHI : the only financing system that will work.