America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK â€¢Â Americaâ€™s Bitter Pill is Steven Brillâ€™s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changingâ€”and failing to changeâ€”the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Itâ€™s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing Americaâ€™s largest, most dysfunctional industry. Itâ€™s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation.
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But by chance Americaâ€™s Bitter Pill ends up being much moreâ€”because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare â€œpolicyâ€ rethinks it from a hospital gurneyâ€”and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury.
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Praise for Americaâ€™s Bitter Pill
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â€œA tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.â€â€”The New York Times
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â€œAn energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review
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â€œA thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the â€˜toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.â€™ â€â€”Los Angeles Times
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â€œA sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.â€â€”The Daily Beast
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â€œOne of the most important books of our time.â€â€”Walter Isaacson
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â€œSuperb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossibleâ€”written an exciting book about the American health system.â€â€”The New York Review of Books
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812986686
Color White
ReleaseDate 2015-08-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812986686

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812986686
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2015-08-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812986686

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

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