Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

by Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs

Book Overview

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199769125
• ISBN13: 9780199769124
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 5.4"