Health Care Reform and American Politics What Everyone Needs to Knowï¿½, Revised and Updated Edition

Name: Health Care Reform and American Politics What Everyone Needs to Knowï¿½, Revised and Updated Edition
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ISBN: 9780199976133

ISBN-10: 0199976139

ISBN-13: 9780199976133

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theda Skocpol

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 8.20" wide x 5.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Turning Point for U.S. Health Care and Politics


Timeline of Health Reform Events



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 Reform Succeed?


Glossary of Key People, Groups, Legislation, and Health Care Terms


Notes


Index