Bibliograph

Health care reform and American politics, what everyone needs to know, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol

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Label

Health care reform and American politics, what everyone needs to know, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (201-218) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Health care reform and American politics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

921821721

Responsibility statement

Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol

Sub title

what everyone needs to know

Summary

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich

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