《十年之战》内容简介
《十年之战》是对美国“奥巴马医改”之争最权威的叙述和讨论。
奥巴马医改，又称《平价医疗法案》，是过去半个世纪美国涉及面最广也最重要的立法，它牵动了普通人的心，也触动了许多行业、团体、个体的利益，成为这个时代美国人的一场意义重大的政治斗争。
作者通过对医疗问题专家、多级政府和两党的高层乃至奥巴马总统等相关人士数百小时的采访，加上相关的日志、电子邮件、备忘录等，带领读者走进国会山、市政会议、白宫西翼乃至特朗普大厦等辩论现场，展示这部法律是如何形成的，为什么看起来会是这样，以及它对普通美国人意味着什么。
奥巴马医改从制定到出台、实施，前后十年，试图调和实用主义和理想主义、私利和公共利益。然而，围绕医疗保健的斗争从来就不仅仅是政策问题。这一点，从简要追溯的包括肯尼迪、里根、布什、克林顿在内的多位前总统对全民医保的艰难尝试和失败也可看出。
《十年之战》在呈现几十年来关于美国医疗保健问题以及如何解决的争论之余，也深入地审视了美国的治理机构、媒体和两党是如何演变的，以及这些变化带来的功能障碍。
作者简介
乔纳森·科恩（JonathanCohn）
密歇根大学福特公共政策学院的公共政策讲师，《赫芬顿邮报》的高级国内新闻记者，长期报道社会福利方面的政治和政策话题，被《华盛顿邮报》誉为“美国顶尖卫生政策专家之一”。他曾为《新共和》《美国展望》工作，并为《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报》杂志等刊物撰稿。他的新闻工作获得了西德尼·希尔曼基金会、医疗卫生记者协会、世界饥饿年、全国妇女政治核心小组等颁发的奖项。
Ten Years of War
The Battle of the Decade is the most authoritative account and discussion of the battle over Obamacare in the United States.
Obama health care, also known as the Affordable Care Act, is the most extensive and important legislation in the United States in the past half century, which affects the hearts of ordinary people, but also touches the interests of many industries, groups and individuals, and becomes a significant political struggle for Americans in this era.
Using hundreds of hours of interviews with health care experts, leaders at every level of government and in both parties and even President Obama, plus logs, emails, memos and more, the author takes readers inside debates on Capitol Hill, town hall meetings, the West Wing and even Trump Tower to show how the law came to be and why it looks the way it does. And what it means for the average American.
From its formulation to its introduction and implementation, Obamacare has tried to reconcile pragmatism and idealism, self-interest and the public interest over the past decade. Yet the fight over health care was never just about policy. This can also be seen from a brief trace of the difficult attempts and failures of various former presidents, including Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, to achieve universal health care.
While presenting decades of debate about America's health care problems and how to fix them, "The Decade's Battle" also takes a deep look at how America's governing institutions, media, and both parties have evolved, and the dysfunction these changes have brought.
About the author
JonathanCohn
A lecturer in public policy at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a senior national correspondent for The Huffington Post, he has long covered the politics and policy topics of social welfare and has been described by The Washington Post as "one of America's leading health policy experts." He has worked for the New Republic, The American Prospect, and has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. His journalistic work has received awards from the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Association of Healthcare Journalists, World Hunger Year, the National Women's Political Caucus and others.
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