America's Bitter Tablet, Cash, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Repair Our Broken Healthcare System
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A New York City TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being executed, and, most important, how it is altering– and stopping working to alter– the widespread abuses in the health care market. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961- page law focused on repairing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first recognized in his conducting Time magazine cover story continues, in spite of Obamacare. And it is the very first total, inside account of how President Obama stood firm to press through the law, but then stopped working to deal with the personnel incompetence and turf wars that crippled its execution. By possibility America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more– due to the fact that as Brill was finishing this book, he had to go through immediate open-heart surgical treatment. Thus, this also ends up being the story of how one client who believes he knows whatever about health care “policy” reassesses it from a medical facility gurney– and integrates that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising brand-new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our households and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Applaud for America’s Bitter Tablet “A trip de force … a comprehensive and appropriately furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare … persuasive, stunning.”– The New York Times “An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has actually happened in the last seven years of health policy … [Brill] has managed something extraordinary.”– The New York Times Book Review “A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’ “– Los Angeles Times “A sweeping and perky new book [that] narrates the remarkably juicy tale of reform.”– The Daily Beast “Among the most essential books of our time.”– Walter Isaacson “Superb … Brill has actually accomplished the relatively impossible– composed an interesting book about the American health system.”– The New York City Review of Books From the Hardcover edition.
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