Reinventing American Health Care Reinventing American Health Care

Reinventing American Health Care

How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    • $11.99

Publisher Description

The definitive story of American health care today—its causes, consequences, and confusions

In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the Supreme Court; it even precipitated a government shutdown. It was a signature piece of legislation for President Obama's first term, and also a ball and chain for his second.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania who also served as a special adviser to the White House on health care reform, has written a brilliant diagnostic explanation of why health care in America has become such a divisive social issue, how money and medicine have their own—quite distinct—American story, and why reform has bedeviled presidents of the left and right for more than one hundred years.
Emanuel also explains exactly how the ACA reforms are reshaping the health care system now. He forecasts the future, identifying six mega trends in health that will determine the market for health care to 2020 and beyond. His predictions are bold, provocative, and uniquely well-informed. Health care—one of America's largest employment sectors, with an economy the size of the GDP of France—has never had a more comprehensive or authoritative interpreter.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2014
March 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
PublicAffairs
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
11.9
MB
Freedom to Die Freedom to Die
2000
40 Issues for an Aging Society 40 Issues for an Aging Society
2012
Doing Good Better Doing Good Better
2015
Making Equality Work Making Equality Work
2016
Broke in America Broke in America
2021
About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed. About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed.
2017
Brothers Emanuel Brothers Emanuel
2013
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
2020
Prescription for the Future Prescription for the Future
2017
The Trillion Dollar Revolution The Trillion Dollar Revolution
2020
Healthcare, Guaranteed Healthcare, Guaranteed
2009
The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics
2008
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2017
Lessons in Chemistry Lessons in Chemistry
2022
Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club
2018