The Ten Year War: Obamacare /H

Book Title: Ten Year War: Obamacare /H
ISBN: 9781250270931
By Author(s):JONATHAN COHN
By Publisher:HOLTZBRINCK US
Format:HC

Jonathan Cohn’sThe Ten Year Waris the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation’s foremost healthcare journalists.

The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and become the defining political fight of our time.

InThe Ten Year War, veteran journalist Jonathan Cohn offers the compelling, authoritative history of how the law came to be, why it looks like it does, and what its meant for average Americans. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, plus private diaries, emails and memos,The Ten Year Wartakes readers to Capitol Hill and to town hall meetings, inside the West Wing and, eventually, into Trump Tower, as the nation’s most powerful leaders try to reconcile pragmatism and idealism, self-interest and the public good, and ultimately two very different visions for what the country should look like.

At the heart of the book is the decades-old argument over whats wrong with American health care and how to fix it. But the battle over healthcare was always about more than policy.The Ten Year Waroffers a deeper examination of how our governing institutions, the media and the two parties have evolved, and the dysfunction those changes have left in their wake.