The New Health Care System: Everything You Need to Know

Nather, David

ISBN 10: 0312649347 / ISBN 13: 9780312649340

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! Seller Inventory # S_460426824

Synopsis:

A primer in plain English that explains how health insurance will work under the new legislation and how it will affect your care and your choices going forward.

Now that "Obamacare" (as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is popularly known) has become the law of the land, millions of Americans will need help figuring out exactly how the new system will work and how it might affect their lives.

This guide will teach people how the new health care exchanges are supposed to work. In an easy, conversational manner, David Nather makes a complicated system easier to understand by answering all your questions. Such as:

*How to apply for help in paying for insurance?
*Will your healthcare change if you work for a big company or a small company?
*How will the legislation affect you if you receive individual insurance, if you're uninsured, or if you are
on Medicare?
*What new protections are you supposed to get from the worst health insurance practices?
*Why did Congress decided everyone should be required to get health insurance?

For people who aren't lawyers or policy wonks, but simply want to make sense of what to expect in their own lives, The New Health Care System: Everything You Need to Know will be a must-read.

About the Author:

David Nather is a writer in the Washington, D.C. area with 15 years of experience covering Congress and translating its work into plain English. He has had a running focus on health care and social policy, and has covered the politics of Congress and the White House as a senior writer for Congressional Quarterly, one of the most respected sources of news and analysis about Capitol Hill. He also spent five years covering health care policy in Congress for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., including the balanced-budget fights of the mid-1990s, the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and the debates over patients' rights.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The New Health Care System: Everything You ...
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good