Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care ACT

by Philip Rocco, Daniel Béland, Alex Waddan

Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia's attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, the ACA rolled out, in infamously bumpy fashion, and rolled on, fought and defended at every turn--despite President Obama's claim, in 2014, that its proponents and opponents could finally "stop fighting old political battles that keep us gridlocked." But not only would the battles not stop, as Obamacare...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700635076
• ISBN13: 9780700635078
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"