Books Details
Author : Ezekiel J. Emanuel Pages : 400 pages Publisher : PublicAffairs
Language : ISBN-10 : 1610395425 ISBN-13 : 9781610395427
Books Descriptions
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
