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Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a University of Pennsylvania professor of medical ethics and health policy who advised the White House on health care reform, explains why American health care became such a divisive issue. He traces how money and medicine developed along their own American path and why presidents of both parties struggled with reform for more than a century. The Affordable Care Act, signed in March 2010, was the largest change to the system since Medicare arrived in 1965, and Emanuel describes how its provisions are reshaping care. He closes by forecasting six major trends that he expects to shape the health care market through 2020 and beyond.
Bill Gates put it on his year-end reading list, noting that one of the law's architects lays out why the American system needed reform and how the Affordable Care Act sets out to repair it.
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Bill Gates (CEO/Microsoft)
Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System, by Ezekiel J. Emanuel. One of the architects of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) makes the case for why the U.S. health care system needed reform and how Obamacare sets out to fix the problems. Although he was deeply involved in its creation, Emanuel is good about making it clear when he’s educating you about the history of health care and when he’s advocating for his ideas. He calls out a few things he disagreed with in Obamacare, like the creation of a separate health-insurance exchange for small businesses. And unlike a lot of experts, he’s willing to make predictions about how health care will change in the coming years. Some day we’ll be able to look back and see whether he was right. The facts and history that Emanuel lays out would be useful to anyone involved in the debate over health care, no matter what their point of view is.
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