Book Review, The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How The Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care In America (Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abbe R. Gluck, eds. (Public Affairs, 2020, pp. 464))

Publication Title

The Journal of Legal Medicine

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2020

Abstract

The Trillion Dollar Revolution assesses the ACA at 10 years, marking its achievements, trade-offs, shortfalls, impacts, and lessons for future reforms. The ACA was both monumental and paradoxical. It was the single biggest social welfare legislation enacted in 50 years and touched every aspect of our sprawling health care system. Yet the narrow political window for its passage meant that the ACA was incremental, building on, rather than fundamentally restructuring, our fragmented health care system. The ACA was imperfect because it inherited many flaws of the existing health care system. Nevertheless, the ACA achieved something quite revolutionary--it changed the minds of the American public, who have since embraced notions of health care access as a right and preexisting condition protections as a given.

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Recommended Citation

Erin C. Fuse Brown, Book Review, 40 J. Legal Med. 421 (2020) (reviewing The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How The Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care In America, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abbe R. Gluck, eds. (Public Affairs, 2020, pp. 464))

Volume

40

First Page

421

Last Page

423

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