America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812986687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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wow! if you read one book this year on healthcare this is the one R. Fleck Mr. Brill does an incredible job in two areas. First he is able to explain some very complicated concepts in very simple layman terms. Secondly he tells the story of Obamacare with a pace and intrigue you would expect from a great mystery writer. Even though we all know how it turned out eventually Mr. Brill is able to make the story very suspenseful. In terms of politics he seems to play the ball straight down the middle to use a golf analogy. For that reason I think even if you feel strongly one,way of the other about Obamacare you . "All Americans Should Read This Important Book!" according to Mary Jo Sminkey. Will healthcare back in the forefront of the political discussion, anyone that wants to be well informed on the issue should pick up a copy of this book. I would love to see one updated for the latest attempt to "fix" the system (more like rolling back the few improvements that HAVE been made and increasing the speed at which it will completely go off the rails), but Brill does a great job of explaining things like 1. how we got here in the first place with a crazy system that NO other country would end up copying (much like our nutty. Right on the money Gregory R As a doctor in the US, I see the problems inherent in our medical system from the inside every day. This book is not just about Obamacare, but about the sorry state of our health care in general. The author clearly, and often infuriatingly, explains why Obamacare ended up being so ineffectual, limited, and riddled with unintended consequences as a result of all the compromises in favor of special interest groups who made sure a real reform would not be passed.
In a gripping narrative, his thorough reporting is made all the more powerful by his own scary experience looking up from a gurney.”—Arianna HuffingtonFrom the Hardcover edition.. A state-of-the-nation account of the broken U.S. It should be required reading for anyone who cares about our healthcare system.”—Walter Isaacson “Superb Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health system.”—TheNew York Review of Book
Brill also teaches journalism at Yale, where he founded the Yale Journalism Initiative to encourage and enable talented young people to become journalists. He is married, with three adult children, and lives in New York.From the Hardcover edition.. Brill was the author of Time’s March 4, 2013, Special Report “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” for which he won the 2014 National Magazine Awar
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. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more—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 “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney—and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’