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The Battle Over Health Care
What Obama's Reform Means for America's Future
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The Battle Over Health Care
What Obama's Reform Means for America's Future
About this book
As the most substantial health care reform in almost half a century, President Obama's health care overhaul was as historic as it was divisive. In its aftermath, the debate continues.
Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy, health care delivery reform, and economics, Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh provide a non-partisan analysis of the reform and what it means for America and its future. The authors shine a light on truths that have been hidden behind a raucous debate marred by political correctness on both sides of the aisle. They show how health care reform was enacted only with the consent of health insurance companies, drug firms, device manufacturers, hospitals, and other special interests that comprise the medical-industrial complex, which gained millions of new customers with the stroke of a pen. Health care businesses in a market-oriented system are designed to generate revenue, which runs counter to affordable health care.
Gibson and Singh take a broader perspective on health care reform not as a single issue but as part of the economic life of the nation. The national debate unfolded while the banking and financial system teetered on the brink of collapse. The authors trace uncanny similarities between the health care industry and the unfettered banking and financial sector. They argue that a fast-changing global economy will have profound implications for the country's economic security and the jobs and health care benefits that come with it, and they predict that global competition will shape the future of employer-provided insurance more than the health care reform law.
Drawing on decades of experience in health care policy, health care delivery reform, and economics, Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh provide a non-partisan analysis of the reform and what it means for America and its future. The authors shine a light on truths that have been hidden behind a raucous debate marred by political correctness on both sides of the aisle. They show how health care reform was enacted only with the consent of health insurance companies, drug firms, device manufacturers, hospitals, and other special interests that comprise the medical-industrial complex, which gained millions of new customers with the stroke of a pen. Health care businesses in a market-oriented system are designed to generate revenue, which runs counter to affordable health care.
Gibson and Singh take a broader perspective on health care reform not as a single issue but as part of the economic life of the nation. The national debate unfolded while the banking and financial system teetered on the brink of collapse. The authors trace uncanny similarities between the health care industry and the unfettered banking and financial sector. They argue that a fast-changing global economy will have profound implications for the country's economic security and the jobs and health care benefits that come with it, and they predict that global competition will shape the future of employer-provided insurance more than the health care reform law.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Politics of Appeasement
- Part I: Deal Makers, Deal Breakers
- Chapter 1: Health Insurers: What Did They Get?
- Chapter 2: The Drug Deal of the Century
- Chapter 3: Hospitals and Doctors: Their Takeaway
- Chapter 4: Who Will Pay for Trillion-Dollar Health Care Reform?
- Part II: How Health Care Reform Did Not Reform Health Care
- Chapter 5: How the AMA Killed the Family Doctor
- Chapter 6: Why Hospitals Don’t Stop Harming Patients
- Chapter 7: Hospitals: Do This, Not That
- Part III: How Health Care Caught the Wall Street Fever
- Chapter 8: Too Big to Fail Just Got Bigger
- Chapter 9: If Only They Were iPhones
- Part IV: Until Debt Do Us Part
- Chapter 10: Good-bye Busboys
- Chapter 11: Promises Made, Promises Broken
- Chapter 12: Government by Default
- Part V: Privatize the Gains, Privatize the Losses
- Chapter 13: The Real Medical Malpractice Fix
- Chapter 14: Health Care Fraud: Follow the Money
- Chapter 15: Ten Steps to More Affordable Health Care
- Notes
- About the Authors