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The Dysfunctional Politics of the Affordable Care Act 1st Edition
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While analyzing the contentious debate over health care reform, this much-needed study also challenges the argument that treating medical patients like shoppers can significantly reduce health expenditures.
This revealing work focuses on the politics surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), explaining how and why supporters and opponents have approached the issue as they have since the act's passage in 2010. The first book to systematically examine public knowledge of the ACA across time, it also documents how that knowledge has remained essentially static since 2010, despite the importance of health-policy reform to every American.
An important book for anyone concerned about the skyrocketing costs of health care in the United States, the work accomplishes three main tasks intended to help readers better understand one of the most important policy challenges of our time. The early chapters explain why congressional Democrats designed the Affordable Care Act of 2010 as they did, clarifies some of the consequences of the act's features, and examines why Republicans have fought the implementation of the law so fiercely. The study then looks at how the intersection of economics and politics applies to the ACA. Finally, the book details what the public knows―and doesn't know―about the law and discusses the prospects for citizens gaining the knowledge they should have about the overall issue of health-policy reform.
- ISBN-101440840024
- ISBN-13978-1440840029
- Edition1st
- PublisherPraeger
- Publication dateMay 24, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.14 x 0.56 x 9.21 inches
- Print length224 pages
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"This is a compelling book that shows persuasively how bitter partisan conflict and polarization have prevented both political leaders and the American public from thinking and acting in level-headed ways to complete the current major effort at health care reform. It is a story involving political manipulation, partisan bias, and emotion, in which the nation's leaders have missed an opportunity to engage and educate the American public on the knottiest and most important issue affecting its well-being. Shaw describes how the public, sadly, has not been able to sort this out on its own. Leadership matters."
--Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University and coauthor of The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences and Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness
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- Publisher : Praeger; 1st edition (May 24, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1440840024
- ISBN-13 : 978-1440840029
- Item Weight : 1.14 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.14 x 0.56 x 9.21 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,928,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #437 in Health Policy (Books)
- #668 in Health Insurance (Books)
- #1,460 in Health Care Delivery (Books)
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