Health care reform and American politics : what everyone needs to know /

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobs, Lawrence R.
Other Authors: Skocpol, Theda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:What everyone needs to know.
Subjects:
United States. > Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (United States)
Health care reform > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Health Care Reform > legislation & jurisprudence
Health Care Reform > economics
Health Policy > legislation & jurisprudence
Insurance, Health > economics
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis.
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
Health care reform
Medical policy
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A turning point for U.S. health care and politcs
  • Why now? : broken health care and an election for change
  • The year of pitched battles : who fought for what, why, and how
  • How the Scott Brown upset strengthened health reform
  • What did they deliver? : the promise of affordable care
  • Will health reform survive and succeed?

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