The Trillion Dollar Revolution, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
The Trillion Dollar Revolution, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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The Trillion Dollar Revolution
How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America

Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Abbe R. Gluck

Narrator: Maggi-Meg Reed, Kevin Stillwell

Unabridged: 14 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 03/03/2020

Synopsis

Ten years after the landmark legislation, Ezekiel Emanuel leads a crowd of experts, policy-makers, doctors, and scholars as they evaluate the Affordable Care Act's history so far.
In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act officially became one of the seminal laws determining American health care. From day one, the law was challenged in court, making it to the Supreme Court four separate times. It transformed the way a three-trillion-dollar sector of the economy behaved and brought insurance to millions of people. It spawned the Tea Party, further polarized American politics, and affected the electoral fortunes of both parties.
Ten years after the bill's passage, a constellation of experts--insiders and academics for and against the ACA--describe the momentousness of the legislation. Encompassing Democrats and Republicans, along with legal, financial, and health policy experts, the essays here offer a fascinating and revealing insight into the political fight of a generation, its consequences for health care, politics, law, the economy-and the future.

About Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, Brothers Emanuel: A Memoir of an American Family, and Global Justice and Bioethics. He is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. Until January 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. He is also an Op-Ed contributor to the New York Times and a contributor to MSNBC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amber on August 31, 2021

Generally pro ACA, it was a very comprehensive look at the ACA from the very beginning to now, 10 years later. I appreciated the style choice of having multiple authors write about specific aspects of the act- this gave it a fairly wide range of opinions, from those wildly for it and from those who......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 19, 2020

Series of essays about the ACA and sometimes they come to different conclusions, which is a bit jarring, but to be expected with such a broad law. Feels honest. Frankly, I was expecting more of a booster book, but the writers discusses many of the warts and how they came to be, what's working and not......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on August 20, 2021

This book really helped me understand the legislation and the process that got it passed, as well as the challenges it has faced since. The chapters are written by legislators and scholars from both sides of the aisle, and from people who are have been on the front lines, providing intimate, first-h......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on October 05, 2021

Reaction: An explication of all of the many successes and shortcomings of the ACA Writing Style: Politicians, economists, clinicians, and lawyers in an academic tone, each chapter is its own writing style with supporters and dissenters scattered throughout Argumentation: The ACA, with all of its contr......more

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