America's bitter pill money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system
"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 pr...
| Main Author: | Brill, Steven, 1950- (Author) |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House,
[2015]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. 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
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. 3. The crash
- Meltdown in D.C., dancing on eight toes in Kentucky, and frustration in Ohio
- The rescue
- The finish line
- pt. 4. Stuck in the jalopy
- Appendix : Q&A with President Obama.