Protest for, and against, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act AKA Obamacare

The Backroom Deals That Created the Affordable Care Act

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 28, 2015

Steven Brill discusses how the Affordable Care Act was written, how it is being implemented, and how it is changing—and failing to change—the healthcare industry in America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System.

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