| Congressional Malpractice: Is Affordable Healthcare a Right or a Privilege? Contributor(s): Zwelling, Leonard a. (Author), Ehrlich, Marianne L. (Author), Colburn, Thomas (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 194618201X ISBN-13: 9781946182012 Publisher: John M. Hardy Publishing OUR PRICE: $19.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - National - Business & Economics | Government & Business - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.82 lbs) 276 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Forward by Retired U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn, MD. A humorous account of the creation of Obamacare. Dr. Zwelling offers a window into the private conversations, hidden agendas of the self-dealing corrupted politicians and the policy wonks of Washington's Sausage Making Machine. The goal of ObamaCare was exceedingly low. Rather than try to change the -system, whose origins of third-party payment through employer-based insurance began years ago, ObamaCare looked to preserve it all so that those health care -industrial complex players could stay fat. And even if it hadn't been about -money and had really aimed to make sweeping improvements to bring the -American health care system up to the level of the rest of the world, the leadership in -Washington on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue was so tepid, it was never going to -succeed where it needed to--in the clinic and at the bedside of real Americans. Based on Dr. Zwelling's Previous title, RED KOOL-AID BLUE KOOL-AID retells the dizzying year on Capitol Hill from the vantage point of a physician working on health care reform in the earliest years of the push to ObamaCare. While explaining the details that went into the bill's ultimate content, the story focuses more on how the policy, process, and politics surrounding the Democrats' goal of health care reform became subjugated to the personalities attempting to promote or block the reform as well as those sidelined by illness or tax evasion. It is a cautionary tale for all those who still believe the American government works for the American people as opposed to special interests and political ideologies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zwelling, Leonard a.: - Dr. Zwelling is a board-certified internist and medical oncologist. He was trained at Duke University, Duke Medical School and Duke Hospital after which he completed his oncology training at the National Cancer Institute. He started his research career at NCI and in 1984 moved to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. He returned to business school at the University of Houston, graduating in 1993. He then gravitated to research administration. He became the Vice President for Research Administration at MD Anderson until 2007. He then was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy fellow serving on the staff of the US Senate Committee of Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions before returning to MD An-derson. He left Anderson in 2013 and spent 9 months as an executive at Legacy Community Health, a federally-qualified health clinic in Houston, before retiring to write full time in 2014. His blog continues to raise the consciousness of friends and family where he publishes three times a week at lenzwelling.com. He has published over 200 research and opinion articles for major medical journals as well as for the lay press including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hou-ston Chronicle and the Austin-American Statesman. He continues to lecture on health policy. |