Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports) [Kindle Edition]
Author: Staff of the Washington Post | Language: English | ISBN: B003H9SN0K | Format: PDF, EPUB
Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for Us All
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The Washington Post’s must-read guide to the health care overhaul
What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—or won’t—mean. In Landmark, the national reporting staff of The Washington Post pierces through the confusion, examining the new law’s likely impact on us all: our families, doctors, hospitals, health care providers, insurers, and other parts of a health care system that has grown to occupy one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
Landmark’s behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how just how close the law came to defeat, as well as the compromises and deals that President Obama and his Democratic majority in Congress made in achieving what has eluded their predecessors for the past seventy-five years: A legislative package that expands and transforms American health care coverage.
Landmark is an invaluable resource for anyone eager to understand the changes coming our way.
Books with free ebook downloads available Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports) [Kindle Edition] What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—or won’t—mean. In Landmark, the national reporting staff of The Washington Post pierces through the confusion, examining the new law’s likely impact on us all: our families, doctors, hospitals, health care providers, insurers, and other parts of a health care system that has grown to occupy one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
Landmark’s behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how just how close the law came to defeat, as well as the compromises and deals that President Obama and his Democratic majority in Congress made in achieving what has eluded their predecessors for the past seventy-five years: A legislative package that expands and transforms American health care coverage.
Landmark is an invaluable resource for anyone eager to understand the changes coming our way.
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- Print Length: 288 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1586489348
- Publisher: PublicAffairs; 1 edition (April 27, 2010)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B003H9SN0K
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I'm a family physician that has followed the healthcare reform debate closely, dating well back into the Democratic primary season when Hillary and Obama were duking it out, dating even as far back as the failed Bill and Hillary Clinton first attempt during Bill Clinton's presidency. I found Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law to give a much richer historical perspective, and to give a much better analysis of the actual impact that the bill is likely to have, than was available from the fragmented and sensational mainstream media coverage.
The book is a collection of essays written by Washington Post reporters, followed by the actual text of the bill. The essays in the book are far more analytical and informative than what was typically available throughout the somewhat histrionic coverage of Republican and Democratic maneuvering to respectively block or pass the eventual bill. One could have been left with the impression, when it was all over but the shouting, that the resulting bill was weakened to the point of being inconsequential from the point of view of reform, and enormous regarding eventual cost. Read Landmark, and you'll have a different opinion on both those points.
What was useful in the book? The many failed historical efforts to provide some form of national healthcare coverage go back over 100 years, a battle that until this last month stymied many presidents (including Teddy Roosevelt). The historical review alone made the book a worthwhile read for me. Secondly, the authors make a convincing case that, much in contrast to the typical media coverage, this bill represents a deep and broad change in the American approach to healthcare for its citizens, far more so than the Medicare and Medicaid legislation.
"Landmark" by the staff of the Washington Post is a great book for learning about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Naturally it is difficult to write such a book and maintain political neutrality, but "Landmark" is as reasonably unbiased a book as you'll find on bookshelves today. Some of my reasons for recommending this book include:
-This book includes two main sections: the first describes the process of the bill becoming law and the second is a description of what the new law will change. Both sections are thorough and miss none of the important portions of the law.
-It makes clear how the law will affect different groups. Young, working age, and old, male and female, poor and rich, are all given treatment in this book.
-Health care before the law is explained so that the reader can see how things have changed. This is especially important for people who (like myself) don't have a full understanding of how programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP worked before the new law. Because the book explains where we're coming from, it is more clear where we are headed.
A few of the downsides of this book are:
-The authors constantly doubt many estimates, especially those done by the CBO, that suggest a potential problem with the new law. Although the book does give both sides of the debate their space, any official estimate that supports the new law is treated as undeniably true and any estimate that is critical of the benefits of the law is treated with undue skepticism.
-Some sections are confusing because the authors discuss various different plans that were proposed before explaining what ultimately passed. One example of this is how the law affects abortion providers.
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