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America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Work, or Obamacare, was written, how it has been implemented, and, most important, how it is changing - and failing woefully to change - the rampant abuses in the medical care industry. Brill probed the depths of our own nation's healthcare turmoil in his trailblazing Time mag Special Article, which acquired the 2014 Country wide Magazine Award for Community Interest. Now he broadens his zoom lens and delves deeper, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners. From the fly-on-the-wall bill of the struggle, amid an onslaught of lobbying, to cross a 961-web page law targeted at repairing America's largest, most dysfunctional industry - a business larger than the complete overall economy of France. From the penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first discovered in his Time cover storyline goes on, despite Obamacare. Which is the first complete, inside bill of how Chief executive Obama persevered to thrust through the law, but then failed to deal with the personnel incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. Brill questions all the participants in the crisis, including the leader, to find out what happened and why. He asks the head of the firm responsible for the Obamacare website how and why it crashed. And he says the cliffhanger storyline of the technical wizards who swooped directly into rebuild it. Brill gets medicine lobbyists to start on the discounts they struck to protect their profits in return for supporting the law. And he buttresses each one of these accounts with careful research and usage of internal memos, e-mail, notes, and journals written by the main element players during all the pivotal occasions. Brill will there be with patients when they are refused cancer care and attention at a medical center, or billed $77 for a box of gauze pads. Then he asks the multimillion-dollar professionals who run the private hospitals to explain why.
