America's bitter pill : money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system / Steven Brill.

"America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths...

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Main Author: Brill, Steven, 1950-
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States. > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Health care reform > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Health insurance > Law and legislation > United States.
Compulsory health insurance > Law and legislation > United States.
HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.
LAW / Medical Law & Legislation.
Health Care Reform.
Delivery of Health Care.
Insurance, Health.
Health Policy.
United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Physical Description:x, 512 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Looking up from the gurney
  • Center stage
  • Max, Barack, Hillary, Billy, and the gathering consensus
  • "This is what I thought the Senate would be like"
  • A new president commits, and his camp divides
  • Every lobbyist's favorite date
  • Punting to Capitol Hill
  • Deal time
  • Behind closed doors: White House turf wars, industry deals, and Senate wrangling
  • The Tea Party summer, "I'm feeling lucky," and "You lie"
  • Snow jobs, poison pills, and Botox
  • New trouble, then Mount Everest
  • In Washington "everything is slipping," but not in Kentucky
  • An Office becomes a Center, and it matters
  • Meantime, outside the beltway...
  • Waiting for Obamacare
  • A guy in jeans, red lights, and a "train wreck"
  • Two months to go
  • Thirty days to go
  • The crash
  • Meltdown in D.C., dancing on eight toes in Kentucky, and frustration in Ohio
  • The rescue
  • The finish line
  • Stuck in the jalopy.