ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare

by Nick J. Tate

Overview

We Read the Law So You Don’t Have To



The practical handbook to making good decisions in our changing healthcare marketplace.


At over 2,700 pages - with an additional 20,000 pages of regulations -the ObamaCare law is longer than the Bible, with many more rules. Rules that will, in the words of the president, “fundamentally transform” healthcare in America.


What no one explains is if the transformation will be a good one or a bad one. And that’s why the ObamaCare Survival Guide is so important to you right now.


Because what you don’t know can hurt you. For example, can you answer these vital questions?


• Do you know how the rollout of ObamaCare will affect your relationship with your doctor?


• What is the laws impact on Medicare?


• If your health insurance was cancelled, what options do you have now?


Having trouble with the answers? You aren’t alone. But if you care about your health and your family’s health, you have three choices:


• Read and study all 22,700 pages
• Hire your own personal ObamaCare lobbyist
• Buy a copy of the best-selling ObamaCare Survival Guide: 229 pages of vital information that will govern your healthcare today and tomorrow.


The ObamaCare Survival Guide is a critical resource for every American whether you have health insurance or not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893348625
Publisher:	Humanix Books
Publication date:	10/02/2012
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	7.63(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nick J. Tate: Nick J. Tate , [Boca Raton, FL] award-winning journalist, editor, and author, has written extensively about health, business, technology, finance, and consumer affairs issues. His work has appeared in Newsmax Magazine, Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Herald, Health Radar Newsletter, and other print and online publications. Harvard-educated, the author’s background also includes teaching health/science journalism at Emory University in Atlanta. Tate recently authored the bestselling ObamaCare Survival Guide, which continues to be the foremost resource on the subject.

Editorial Reviews

Boldly one-sided in this presidential election year, this book lobs stink bombs from the start at president Obama and the Democratic Party. Journalist Tate (The Sick Building Syndrome) lays out at the beginning who he thinks will benefit from the Healthcare Reform Act: essentially, no one, except the uninsured. And taxpayers will be harmed. Tate's leaps of logic are frequent; acknowledging, for instance, that life expectancy in the U.S. is lower than that of 36 other advanced nations, he says it is still higher than the world average, implying that it's reasonable to compare American lifespan with that of the world's poorest nations. He states that a focus on prevention, and required preventive screening, will increase costs, though many major insurance companies already pay 100% of the cos of these test in the belief that an ounce of prevention costs less than a pound of cure for, say, breast or cervical cancer. Tate covers many key points that should be clarified in an intelligent discussion about health care in the United States. Unfortunately, in undermining his credibility with his blatant animus, he will feed political arguments rather than intelligent discussions.
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Publishers Weekly

With almost 500 provisions, the extremely complex Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111–148)—popularly referred to as "Obamacare"—goes beyond the controversial individual mandate, small business incentive, Medicaid expansion, and insurance exchanges that are commonly discussed. However, in this title journalist Tate ignores or barely acknowledges other provisions such as the prohibition against discrimination on assisted suicide and provider payment options. Though he claims to go "…beyond the sound bites and headlines to provide a detailed analysis of what it will mean for…American healthcare consumers," a number of Tate's repetitive statements sound biased against the Act or appear to emphasize the negative effect it may have on specific programs such as Medicare. Many statements remain undocumented by footnotes, endnotes, text notes, or bibliography, and others are one-sided. For example, stating that "healthcare costs in the United States have risen since ObamaCare's passage…," Tate fails to acknowledge that health care costs also rose significantly prior to the passage of this legislation. On the positive side, the implementation time line is particularly helpful and tables scattered throughout the book provide a nicely organized before-and-after display. Unfortunately, several tables appear to be incorrectly named and few are discussed within the text. For example Tables 7–4 and 7–5 bear identical titles, offer conflicting data, and are not discussed within text or captions. However, the material, including the tables, is well indexed. VERDICT While this work is timely, there are a number of similar books available, some of which are better designed for reference use. This one is best suited for a public library circulating collection that has additional titles that pick up other aspects of the new health care legislation.—Laurie Selwyn, formerly with Grayson Cty. Law Lib., Sherman, TX

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