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    Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
    Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
    Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
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    Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    Written by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

    Narrated by William Dufris

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    About this audiobook

    In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the Supreme Court; it even precipitated a government shutdown.

    Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania who also served as a special adviser to the White House on health care reform, has written a brilliant diagnostic explanation of why health care in America has become such a divisive social issue, how money and medicine have their own American story, and why reform has bedeviled presidents of the left and right for more than one hundred years.

    Emanuel also explains exactly how the ACA reforms are reshaping the health care system now. He forecasts the future, identifying six mega trends in health that will determine the market for health care to 2020 and beyond. His predictions are bold, provocative, and uniquely well-informed. Health care has never had a more comprehensive or authoritative interpreter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 13, 2015
    ISBN9781494580735
    Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

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    • 4/5
      First of all, the listing of this book on Goodreads has the page count wrong. There are 349 pages not 258. That needs to be changed. I found this book very interesting. I didn't know too much about the healthcare industry and this book really explains how health insurance came about, how hospitals and physicians have evolved and why healthcare costs have gone way up. He also explains how the Affordable Care Act (Yes, that is the name not Obamacare), and how it affects people, companies, physicians and hospitals. I like the concept of actually making the healthcare field accountable especially hospitals. I also like the idea of hospitals being more of a critical care facility instead of being the place where everyone goes to get help. I'm lucky I'm healthy but when I went through cancer treatment I now wonder did my doctor prescribe expensive drugs because there was more of a kickback or did I get what was best for me. I even see that now when a foot doctor said no to the generic brand of a cream that did the same thing as the expensive stuff, which was not covered by my insurance and the compound pharmacist said I could do a payment plan. I said no thank you and have gone holistic. If the ACA can help regulate the healthcare industry and make everyone accountable and lower costs, I'm all for it. I think we should be more of a proactive society towards are health and no reactive. If you want to understand the ACA a little bit more before deciding it is crap when you don't know all the facts, then pick up this book. Now if they could regulate the food industry, get all the sugar and high fructose corn syrup out of processed foods, our country would be a little healthier.