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

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

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Author
Summary
A narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and how it is changing and failing to change the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry
Language
eng
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Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 512 pages
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
Isbn
9780812996951
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America's bitter pill : money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
Title
America's bitter pill
Title remainder
money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
Statement of responsibility
Steven Brill
Title variation
Money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
A narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and how it is changing and failing to change the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry
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YDXCP
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1950-
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Brill, Steven
Dewey number
362.10973
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • United States.
  • Health insurance
  • Health care reform
  • Medical policy
  • Medical care
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America's bitter pill : money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system, Steven Brill
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Control code
sky270597763
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 512 pages
Isbn
9780812996951
Label
America's bitter pill : money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system, Steven Brill
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Control code
sky270597763
Dimensions
25 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 512 pages
Isbn
9780812996951

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