Health care reform and American politics : what everyone needs to know / Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Lawrence R.

Contributor:

Skocpol, Theda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

United States.

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

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 its survival. The law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. It aims to control rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing decades of rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses--and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich.

Contents:

Why now? broken health care and an opportunity for change

The year of pitched battles: who fought for what, why, and how

How the Scott Brown upset strengthened health reform

What did they deliver? the promise of affordable care

Will health care reform succeed?

ISBN:

9780199976133

0199976139

OCLC:

830204820