| Title | : | The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America |
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| ISBN | : | 1541797779 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781541797772 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 |
| Publication | : | First published March 3, 2020 |
On the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- arguably the most significant piece of social legislation in over a half-century -- this collection of essays from a number of leading policymakers, academics, journalists, lawyers, and healthcare providers examines the law's legacy so far.
The ACA sought to dramatically expand health insurance coverage --- and reform health care delivery in America in the process. Ten years later, after surviving several bruising political and legal battles, the law has both fallen short of its original ambitions and proven more influential than anticipated.
As the country continues to grapple with the ACA's legacy, this collection -- which includes contributions from former secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, former US Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor -- provides a thorough accounting of where the law has succeeded and where it is still failing to deliver on its promise to transform our nation's health care system.
The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America Reviews
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The bureaucrats who received more money and more power from a law are telling you how good it is, and how they need more money and more power to make it even better for themselves.
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Reaction: An explication of all of the many successes and shortcomings of the ACA
Writing Style: Politicians, economists, clinicians, and lawyers in an academic tone, each chapter is its own writing style with supporters and dissenters scattered throughout
Argumentation: The ACA, with all of its controversy, was groundbreaking in establishing a set of legislation that would become the beginnings of partisanship becoming the mainstay of USA. Few policies are so divisive as this one complex law, and it shows with the many criticisms from all sides at different points of the act’s conception, implementation, and regulation
Commendation: makes the reader feel less sure about what the ACA stands for given the volume of information and detail that calls into question many things
Critique: a basic primer on health insurance at the very beginning to establish key concepts of health insurance in the US, establishing ACOs, CHIPs, NFIB, CARES, FFS, HMO, PPO, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Lots of prior knowledge should be easily accessible for the reader -
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This is a comprehensive look at the successes and failures of the Affordable Act. It details the initial struggles of passing such a historical bill and it dives into it's achievements as well as it's areas of improvement. It's very dense to read so if you're particularly interested in this bill then this is a good book for you.
