Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports)
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What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—or won’t—mean. In Landmark, the national reporting staff of The Washington Post pierces through the confusion, examining the new law’s likely impact on us all: our families, doctors, hospitals, health care providers, insurers, and other parts of a health care system that has grown to occupy one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
Landmark’s behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how just how close the law came to defeat, as well as the compromises and deals that President Obama and his Democratic majority in Congress made in achieving what has eluded their predecessors for the past seventy-five years: A legislative package that expands and transforms American health care coverage.
Landmark is an invaluable resource for anyone eager to understand the changes coming our way.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-03
Summary: "Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What it Means for Us All"
Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports)
The book is well written and very easy to understand helping to clarify specific portions of the new Health Care Reform Law through the analysis of several Washington Post reporters. What is exceptional is that it contains the law itself so that anyone can read and see EXACTLY what this law does and does not do. With all the hype from so many sides this book and the actual law is a must read to understanding all elements of this reform. It is truly a "Landmark". I highly recommend it. I purchased this book through Amazon.com.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-08-18
Summary: "Not an inside story"
I am a professor, looking for a case-study book on major legislative change, similar to Showdown at Gucci Gulch, or The Bill. Unfortunately, this book is not in that category. It has a couple short chapters describing the major milestones in the legislative battle, many chapters describing the tenets of health care reform (policy analysis style), and then a summary of the legislation itself. This is fine, in of itself, but it is certainly not "an inside story." the way that Showdown or The Bill was. Its also more policy analysis oriented than Policy Process oriented. It would make a good primer for an analysis of the health care reform bill.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-07-22
Summary: "Rehash, not coordinated"
This book is just a rehash of content that was in the paper and provides no depth. Also, the articles were not coordinated and in places material is repeated multiple times.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-06-12
Summary: "Understanding complexity"
Getting the legislative history and getting a feel for the many parts of this historic legislation is a must for those of us who (i.e. the entire adult population of the USA) will make this law into a force in the economy. This book can be an intoduction to how the legislative process can actually work to propose a solution to a complex set of problems. Without a doubt, readers will see that this is the first step in what will become a series of attempts to solve a problem facing the country. When financial interests confront voters with opposite views of a situation, we become confused about who to believe when what we should understand is that the financial interests are presenting a position that favors "them" not "us", and "we" must educate ourselves to fully understand the issues. It should be the responsibility of politicians to act for "us" and in many instances, they fail, not because they don't believe the "us" advocates are right but because they only get one side of the issue. This book helps "us" understand all of those views to come closer to what should be done.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-24
Summary: "Great Research and Expanation of the New Health Care Law"
This book gives the history of the work put into the passing of the new health care bill. Then it goes into explanations of how the new law works and tells the good and bad of each segment. Each writter put their own knowledge and research into their part of the book. It made me look at the new law with a more open and optimistic mind.