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America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths of our nation's healthcare crisis in his trailblazing Time magazine Special Report, which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. Now he broadens his lens and delves deeper, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners.
It's a fly-on-the-wall account of the fight, amid an onslaught of lobbying, to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America's largest, most dysfunctional industry--an industry larger than the entire economy of France.
It's a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his Time cover story continues, despite Obamacare.
And it is...
Author(s): Steven Brill
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 468
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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Part One
Chapter 1: Looking Up from the Gurney
Chapter 2: Center Stage
Chapter 3: Max, Barack, Hillary, Billy, and the Gathering Consensus
Chapter 4: “This Is What I Thought the Senate Would Be Like”
Chapter 5: A New President Commits, and His Camp Divides
Chapter 6: Every Lobbyist’s Favorite Date
Chapter 7: Punting to Capitol Hill
Chapter 8: Deal Time
Chapter 9: Behind Closed Doors: White House Turf Wars, Industry Deals, and Senate Wrangling
Chapter 10: The Tea Party Summer, “I’m Feeling Lucky,” and “You Lie”
Chapter 11: Snow Jobs, Poison Pills, and Botox
Chapter 12: New Trouble, Then Mount Everest
Part Two
Chapter 13: In Washington “Everything Is Slipping,” but Not in Kentucky
Chapter 14: An Office Becomes a Center—and It Matters
Chapter 15: Meantime, Outside the Beltway …
Chapter 16: Waiting for Obamacare
Chapter 17: A Guy in Jeans, Red Lights, and a “Train Wreck”
Chapter 18: Two Months to Go
Chapter 19: Thirty Days to Go
Part Three
Chapter 20: The Crash
Chapter 21: Meltdown in D.C., Dancing on Eight Toes in Kentucky, and Frustration in Ohio
Chapter 22: The Rescue
Chapter 23: The Finish Line
Part Four
Chapter 24: Stuck in the Jalopy
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Q&A with President Obama
Methodology and Source Notes
Other Books by This Author
About the Author
