Rating:
(5 reviews)
Author: Stephen Davidson
ISBN : 080478700X
New from $11.64
Format: PDF
Download file now Free A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Next Steps Under the Affordable Care Act (Stanford Briefs) Paperback from with Mediafire Link Download Link
Review
"This is a succinct account of a mind-bogglingly complicated piece of legislation. Well-grounded in the literature, it is well suited for policy classes or educated readers who are seeking a short, trustworthy introduction to the ACA."—Harold Pollack, University of Chicago
"The Affordable Care Act promises revolutionary changes for America's health care system. Stephen Davidson's A New Era in U.S. Health Care offers a concise, readable, and insightful explanation of the problems that necessitated this law, the process through which it was adopted and is being implemented, and the reforms that it will bring about."—Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law
"A wise and humane guide through American health care. Davidson explains the problems we face and describes exactly how the Affordable Care Act measures up to them. The bottom line? A New Era in US Health Care might just turn you into a health policy optimist. Clear, elegant, smart, sober, insightful, and highly recommended."—James A Morone, author of The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office and By the People: Debating American Government
About the Author
Stephen M. Davidson is Professor of Strategy and Policy at Boston University's School of Management. A blogger for The Huffington Post, he is the author of Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System.
Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Next Steps Under the Affordable Care Act
- Series: Stanford Briefs
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press (April 24, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080478700X
- ISBN-13: 978-0804787000
- Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 4.9 x 7.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Free A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Next Steps Under the Affordable Care Act
This is moderately informative on the features of the PPACA. It's a description of features purporting to cover 3 aspects: access, cost, and quality. It focuses on four key issues:
use of state-run Medicaid programs to expand access to insurance,
the implementation process,
creation of health insurance exchanges,
and introduction of a new organizational form, accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The book starts with a summary of health care problems in the U.S. He points out how prior programs since Medicare and Medicaid have resulted in legislative failure. Davidson justifies the Act on the basis of the Commerce clause (I,9) and the overused general 'necessary and proper' clause (I,8). He says no one challenges that health care is a factor in interstate commerce. It's a triviality as the S.C. has effectively ruled that any purchase anywhere affects interstate commerce. He neglects to mention the Roberts opinion upholding the ACA by Congress right to tax. He characterizes opposition to the ACA by reference to leftist historian Richard Hofstadter's "paranoid style" in America.
He covers payments by state Medicaid funds ,nothing on effect of the ACA on solvency of the funds and little on the new concept of health care exchanges. The book starts with a summary of health care problems in the U.S. He points out how prior programs since Medicare and Medicaid have resulted in legislative failure.
Does Davidson's information come from reading the Act or is he compiling the research of others? I had to google the new terminology to attain a degree of understanding, difficult to glean from the book. As with many bureaucratic endeavors, understanding is dependent on a bunch of new alphabet soup. An acronym list or an index is a necessity here.
-
Download Link 2