The New Health Care System: Everything You Need to Know: Everything You Need to Know(Thomas Dunne Books)

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.

Review :
"The book sets a gold standard for those that will follow ... Daschle really, really knows his stuff--both the substance of health policy and the politics of Congress and the country." --Health Affairs "In this clearly written primer on health-care reform, former Congressional Quarterly writer Nather explains how insurance works, what the big changes are, and when everything will happen. It's a conversational guide that tells readers how to sign up for Medicare, and what to do if they're uninsured, or if they work for a small business versus a large company. Readers won't find comments from policy wonks, politicians, or even real people. This is a nonpartisan, just-the-facts book, which as Nather (not an unabashed booster of reform) explains, is an overview of how the system will work if everything in the law goes according to plan. Nather's book, which includes a useful glossary, provides an excellent snapshot of how the post-reform health-care system should work as it stands now. It may quickly go out of date as Congress continues to tweak legislation, but it's a good and necessary resource, and with any luck Nather will produce a sequel as needed." --Booklist