Inside national health reform /

This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. Jo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonough, John E. (John Edward)
Corporate Author: Milbank Memorial Fund
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund ©2011.
Series:California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 22.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp66q
Table of Contents:
  • The knowledge base : why national health reform?
  • Social strategy : Massachusetts Avenue
  • Political will I : prelude to a health reform campaign
  • Political will II : a health reform campaign
  • Title I : the three-legged stool
  • Title II : Medicaid, CHIP, and the governors
  • Title III : medical care, Medicare, and the cost curve
  • Title IV : money, mammograms, and menus
  • Title V : who will provide the care?
  • Title VI : the stew
  • Title VII : bio-similar biological products
  • Title VIII : class act
  • Title IX : paying for the ACA or about half of it
  • Title X-plus : the manager's amendment and the reconciliation act.