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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ⢠âA tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.ââThe New York Times Americaâs Bitter Pill is Steven Brillâs acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changingâand failing to changeâthe rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Itâs a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing Americaâs largest, most dysfunctional industry. Itâs a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance Americaâs Bitter Pill ends up being much moreâbecause as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare âpolicyâ rethinks it from a hospital gurneyâand combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Praise for Americaâs Bitter Pill âAn energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.ââThe New York Times Book Review âA thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the âtoxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.â ââLos Angeles Times âA sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.ââThe Daily Beast âOne of the most important books of our time.ââWalter Isaacson âSuperb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossibleâwritten an exciting book about the American health system.ââThe New York Review of Books
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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 chan...
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