Reinventing American health care ; how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system / Ezekiel J. Emanuel.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

How did we get here? -- The structure of the American health care system -- How Americans get their health care -- Five problems with the American health care system -- The surprising history of health care reform in the United States -- Enacting the Affordable Care Act -- What the Supreme Court said -- What is in the Affordable Care Act? -- What does the ACA mean for me? -- The ACA Dashboards -- Health care reform 2.0 -- Six megatrends in health care.

Health care is the largest employer in America, one of the largest perceived drains on the budget of the Federal government, a system with the capacity to bankrupt entire state economies, and one of the areas of personal expenditure that gives individual American citizens most financial anxiety. It matters like almost no other dimension of the government and private sector. Yet the system is widely misunderstood, and is a confusing maze to most of us who feel crushed by its complexities quite as much as we feel served by its doctors and nurses.