Health care reform and American politics : what everyone needs to know /

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Author / Creator:Jacobs, Lawrence R.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource ([xi], 215 pages).
Language:English
Series:What Everyone Needs to Know
What everyone needs to know.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11243929
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Other authors / contributors:Skocpol, Theda.
ISBN:9780199781423
0199781427
9780199769117
0199769117
9780199769124
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses.
Other form:Print version: Jacobs, Lawrence R. Health care reform and American politics. Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780199769117