Hijacked: : The Road to Single-Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform

Soaring costs. No price controls. More employers reducing or dropping coverage. Insurance covering only 70 percent of our health care costs. More Americans going without necessary health care. Increasing medical bankruptcies. Sound familiar? Added to this will be fines of up to 2.5 percent of our income if we fail to purchase the industry’s defective products. This is our future in the aftermath of Health Care Reform 2010, guided by a failing industry bailed out by new government subsidies.The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) is being spun as the answer to our problems of health care access, costs and quality. But the dirty little secret is that the reform effort has been stolen by the very corporate interests that have perpetuated and profited from these problems for years. The result is a bailout of a failing insurance industry and a bonanza for Wall Street. Most Americans and Main Street lose once again. The need for real health care reform remains urgent.This well-documented book charts a path to that end. Hijacked: The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand how our health care system got this way and what we can do about it.