AMERICAS BITTER PILL

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A tour de force a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare persuasive shocking The New York Times America s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare was written how it is being implemented and most important how it is changing and failing to change the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry It s a fly on the wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961 page law aimed at fixing America s largest most dysfunctional industry It s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues despite Obamacare And it is the first complete inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation But by chance America s Bitter Pill ends up being much more because as Brill was completing this book he had to undergo urgent open heart surgery Thus this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare policy rethinks it from a hospital gurney and combines that in