Product Description: Insider Richard Kirsch offers a vivid, first-person account of how health care reform came to be. This first-person account brings readers inside the biggest and most consequential issue campaign in American history. Fighting for Our Health recounts how a reform campaign led by grassroots organizers played a crucial role in President Obama’s signing historic health reform legislation in March of 2010—defeating the tea partiers, Republican Party, health insurance industry, and the US Chamber of Commerce...read more

Product Description: After nearly a year of debate, in March 2010, Congress passed and the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to reform the U.S. health care system. The most significant social legislation since the civil rights legislation and the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, the bill’s passage has been met with great controversy...read more

Product Description: In March 2010, President Obama signed into law a comprehensive health reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and a package of amendments to PPACA, as well as the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA)...read more

Product Description: The health care reform debate raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability and quality of health care. Underlying these policy considerations are issues regarding the status of health care as a constitutional or legal right...read more

Product Description: Issues surrounding genetic discrimination and privacy in health insurance and employment are currently being debated in the109th Congress. On February 7, 2005, Senator Snowe introduced S. 306, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005...read more

Product Description: Utah Health Information Network (UHIN). Offers tools and guidance toward HIPAA compliance, providing an overview of general knowledge. Takes into account the three new HIPAA laws passed since the first edition of the text. Also includes new material on transactions and code sets; tips for completing claims, inquiries, and attachments; and more...read more

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