The Ten Year War

Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Jonathan Cohn

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St Martin's Press
29 June 2021

Social welfare & social services; Central government policies

"Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists.

The Affordable Care Act, better known as ""Obamacare,"" was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and become the defining political fight of our time.

In The Ten Year War, veteran journalist Jonathan Cohn offers the compelling, authoritative history of how the law came to be, why it looks like it does, and what it's meant for average Americans. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, plus private diaries, emails and memos, The Ten Year War takes readers to Capitol Hill and to town hall meetings, inside the West Wing and, eventually, into Trump Tower, as the nation's most powerful leaders try to reconcile pragmatism and idealism, self-interest and the public good, and ultimately two very different visions for what the country should look like.

At the heart of the book is the decades-old argument over what's wrong with American health care and how to fix it. But the battle over healthcare was always about more than policy. The Ten Year War offers a deeper examination of how our governing institutions, the media and the two parties have evolved, and the dysfunction those changes have left in their wake."

By: Jonathan Cohn
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 586g
ISBN: 9781250270931
ISBN 10: 1250270936
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 29 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"JONATHAN COHN is a senior national correspondent at HuffPost, where he covers politics and policy, and the author of Sick. A former senior editor at the New Republic, he has also written for the New York Times, Atlantic, and Self, among other publications. He has won several awards and was called ""one of the nation's leading experts on health policy"" by the Washington Post. A graduate of Harvard, Jonathan grew up in Florida and lived for many years in the Boston area before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he lives with his family."

Reviews for The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage

Praise for Sick: This is a stunningly important book. Jonathan Cohn lays bare the tragedy of our health care system. --Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal A terrific new book on our dysfunctional health care system. --Paul Krugman, The New York Times No one has thought harder about our heath care system than Jonathan Cohn. --E.J. Dionne, Jr., author of Code Red Sick is one of those rare books that combines the personal with the sharply analytical. --Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights Sick is an eye-opening work on healthcare in America told through the stories of those in need. --Jerome Groopman, author of The Anatomy of Hope