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COVER; HEALTH CARE REFORM AND AMERICAN POLITICS: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INTRODUCTION: A TURNING POINT FOR U.S. HEALTH CARE AND POLITICS; A TOUGH BATTLE; WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT IT MEANS; TIMELINE OF HEALTH REFORM EVENTS; Battles over House and Senate Legislation; Scott Brown Election and the Legislative Endgame; 1: WHY NOW? BROKEN HEALTH CARE AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE; WHY DOES THE COUNTRY NEED CHANGES IN HEALTH CARE? ; Shrinking Access to Affordable Care; Paying More for Less ; HOW DID IT COME TO THIS? |
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HOW AN ELECTION FOR CHANGE PAVED THE WAY FOR (Another attempt AT) HEALTH Reform health Care in the Democratic Primaries; Abeam Makes Health Care His Issue; A NEW PRESIDENT WITH AN AGENDA FOR CHANGE; Fighting Recession amidst Republican Opposition; Should Health Care Be Delayed?; Full Speed Ahead; A Mountain to Climb; 2: THE YEAR OF Pitched battles: WHO FOUGHT For what, WHY, AND HOW; WHO LED THE CHARGE, AND WHAT TOOLS DID THEY HAVE?; Obama's Powers-and Their Limits; Congressional Leaders and the Challenges They Faced; The Clout of the Bean Counters. |
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DEALS WITH THE DEVIL? INSIDER Bargains with HEALTH CARE Stakeholders why Reformers Bargained; How Were Deals Struck?; OUTSIDE PRESSURES FROM RIGHT AND LEFT; "Just Say No" Outcries from the Right; Progressives Draw Lines in the Sand; What Did Outside Pressures Accomplish?; WHAT HAPPENED TO BIPARTISANSHIP?; WHAT WERE THEY ARGUING ABOUT?; Widening Access to Health Insurance and Services; Could Private Insurers Make Money While Covering Everyone?; Could Washington Pay for Promised Benefits?; Can Expanded Access and Reduced Costs Really Go Together? |
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Dodging Old and New Controversies to Get the Bills Through; 3: HOW THE SCOTT BROWN UPSET STRENGTHENED HEALTH REFORM; WHY DID A SINGLE ELECTION SEND DC INTO PANIC?; How Could This Happen in Kennedy's Home State?; "Panicking Is What Politicians Do When They Lose Elections" 10; Anger and Black Humor from the Democratic Base; HOW WAS HEALTH REFORM REVIVED?; The President Steps Up; Congressional Democrats Get Their Act Together; A New Course for America; 4: WHAT DID THEY DELIVER? THE PROMISE OF AFFORDABLE CARE; WHO BENEFITS FROM HEALTH REFORM?; Retirees on Medicare Get Many Benefits. |
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Young Adults Just Starting Work Get a LegUp middlee-Income Americans Will Enjoy Affordable Insurance and Improved Care; Help for the Most Vulnerable; The Affluent Benefit, Too-and Pay Much of the Bill; WILL HEALTH REFORM HELP OR HURT THE ECONOMY?; CAN THE NATION AFFORD ALL OF THIS?; Reset Business Models for Insurers and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers; Discourage Overuse of Medical Care; Reduce (Still Growing) Expenditures on Medicare; Reconfigure Medical Practice; THE BOTTOM LINE: BOTH BENEFITS AND COST-CONTROLS MAY WORK; 5: WILL HEALTH REFORM SUCCEED? |
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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 that it will remain the law of the land. 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 - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Jacobs, Lawrence R. Health care reform and American politics 9780190262044 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780190262051 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0190262052 (electronic bk.) |
