Lendle

ObamaCare explains why health care reform is necessary, describes what the new federal law seeks to accomplish, and discusses the range of legal issues that the Supreme Court will have to resolve in evaluating its constitutionality. Despite the complexity of the legal and economic issues that are covered, the book is written in clear, concise language. It presents a volume of information in a compact and readily understandable form.

Part I of the book explains the crisis in health care that America is facing. This portion of book gathers in one place the studies, surveys, and economic reports that bear upon the problem. It is filled with charts and graphs based upon these sources; showing, for example, the rising cost of medical care relative to Americans’ income and the overall health of the American people compared to the people of other countries. Part II describes the PPACA: whose idea it was, what the law says, what it seeks to accomplish, and the justifications that Congress wrote into the law itself. Part III discusses the constitutionality of the law: what parts of the Constitution are involved, what the legal issues are, what the lower courts decided, and all of the considerations that the Supreme Court is likely to take into account in its final ruling.