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Health care reform and American politics : what everyone needs to know / Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Lawrence R.
- Series:
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. 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
- Contents:
- Why now? broken health care and an election 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 survive and succeed?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-978142-7
- 9786612953170
- 1-282-95317-6
- OCLC:
- 670412044
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