Reinventing American Health Care, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Reinventing American Health Care, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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Reinventing American Health Care
How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Narrator: William Dufris

Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/13/2015


Synopsis

In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the Supreme Court; it even precipitated a government shutdown.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania who also served as a special adviser to the White House on health care reform, has written a brilliant diagnostic explanation of why health care in America has become such a divisive social issue, how money and medicine have their own American story, and why reform has bedeviled presidents of the left and right for more than one hundred years.

Emanuel also explains exactly how the ACA reforms are reshaping the health care system now. He forecasts the future, identifying six mega trends in health that will determine the market for health care to 2020 and beyond. His predictions are bold, provocative, and uniquely well-informed. Health care has never had a more comprehensive or authoritative interpreter.

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 Bonnie

Anyone interested in knowing exactly what is in the ACA should read this book. I considered myself fairly well-versed on what the legislation will do, but there is even more to it than I thought. Emanuel does a great job synthesizing a huge bill and making both its benefits and weaknesses understand......more

Goodreads review by Brenna

Should really be a must read for all Americans who want to comment on ACA or health care system in general :)......more

Goodreads review by Amaya

Read for work. 5 star review so I don’t get fired.......more