02769cam a2200373 i 4500 17972052 OSt 20161026150746.0 131212s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 2013049343 9781610393454 (hbk.) (DNLM)101622004 DNLM/DLC DLC rda DLC pcc Alfaisal Main Library RA413 .E45 2014 WA 540 AA1 362.1/0425 23 Emanuel, Ezekiel J., 1957- author. Reinventing American health care : how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system / Ezekiel J. Emanuel. First edition. PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2014 xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and index. "Health care is the largest employer in America, one of the largest perceived drains on the budget of the Federal government, a system with the capacity to bankrupt entire state economies, and one of the areas of personal expenditure that gives individual American citizens most financial anxiety. It matters like almost no other dimension of the government and private sector. Yet the system is widely misunderstood, and is a confusing maze to most of us who feel crushed by its complexities quite as much as we feel served by its doctors and nurses. Reinventing American Health Care explains why the American health care system is the way it is (why, for instance hospitals are so dominant), and the five problems that confront any attempt at reform. Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Kennedy and Nixon all came to power promising universal coverage, and all failed. Emanuel explains how this happened by way of showing how extraordinary the passage of the Affordable Care Act was: it completely bucked the trend, in the face of some very tough political circumstances. With his unique insider's view, Emanuel explains why the Affordable Care Act took the shape it did, and in particular examines the political role of the American Medical Association. He then projects how the ACA will affect health care in the future, laying out the likely areas where further reform will be necessary"--Provided by publisher. United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Health Care Reform United States. Health Services Administration United States. Health Services United States. National Health Programs economics United States. Print books. local lcc BOOKS PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2014 7275 7275 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2015-02-11 0 RA413 .E45 2014 AU0000000002703 2015-02-11 00:00:00 193.00 2015-02-11 BOOKS