Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error-prone system: The Book:
If I am being completely honest, I check four books out at the library in one day thinking I have a couple months to read these, it will be all well and dandy and let me tell you they were so incredibly dry. Yes, this undoing was all on myself for choosing a topic with incredibly dry books. Anyways, moving past that this book had some interesting points to it which perhaps didn't help me learn more about universal and single-payer healthcare and why it did or didn't work in America, instead, it did teach me about how it failed. This is the synopsis of the book (you really learn all you need from this, don't bother giving it a read)
In March 2010, the affordable care act was signed into law. it was the most extensive reform of Americas 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 up 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." -Ezekiel J. Em
If I am being completely honest, I check four books out at the library in one day thinking I have a couple months to read these, it will be all well and dandy and let me tell you they were so incredibly dry. Yes, this undoing was all on myself for choosing a topic with incredibly dry books. Anyways, moving past that this book had some interesting points to it which perhaps didn't help me learn more about universal and single-payer healthcare and why it did or didn't work in America, instead, it did teach me about how it failed. This is the synopsis of the book (you really learn all you need from this, don't bother giving it a read)
In March 2010, the affordable care act was signed into law. it was the most extensive reform of Americas 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 up 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." -Ezekiel J. Em
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