In this classic text, William G Weissert and Carol S Weissert describe how government and private interest help define health policy. Under the Obama administration, the federal government took a broaden role in setting health policy and insurance regulations. But the succeeding, Trump administration and a Republican Congress threatened to dismantle the affordable care act ACA and its core tenants. Chronicling these recent important changes, governing health explores the political science theory behind this and other major shifts in national health policy.