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Health Care Reform and American Politics - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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Health Care Reform and American Politics - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know (R)
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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. How
did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan
divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does
Affordable Care mean-and what comes next? In this updated edition
of Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to
Know (R), Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol-two of the nation's
leading experts on politics and health care policy-provide a
concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles
of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals
Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by
Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what
the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and
who will pay. In a new section, they also analyze the impact the
Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law. Above all, they explain
what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles
rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states.
Affordable Care still faces challenges at the state level despite
the Court ruling. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could
also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans
learn what it can do for them.
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