Inside National Health Reform

John E. McDonough, DPH, MPA, is a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the first Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care (UC Press). Between 2008 and 2010, he served as Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and also played a major role in the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law.

List of Tables 
Foreword by Carmen Hooker Odom and Samuel L. Milbank 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction—A Meeting in Minnesota     
Part I. Preludes and Process 
     1.     The Knowledge Base—Why National Health Reform?     
     2.     Social Strategy—Massachusetts Avenue     
     3.     Political Will I—Prelude to a Health Reform Campaign     
     4.     Political Will II—A Health Reform Campaign     
Part II. Policies—Ten Titles 
     5.     Title I—The Three Legged Stool     
     6.     Title II—Medicaid, CHIP, and the Governors     
     7.     Title III—Medical Care, Medicare, and the Cost Curve     
     8.     Title IV—Money, Mammograms, and Menus     
     9.     Title V—Who Will Provide the Care?     
     10.     Title VI—The Stew     
     11.     Title VII—Biosimilar Biological Products     
     12.     Title VIII—CLASS Act     
     13.     Title IX—Paying for the ACA (or about Half of It)     
     14.     Title X Plus—The Manager’s Amendment and the Health Care Education and Reconciliation Act     
          Conclusion     
Notes 
Health Reform Timeline 
Index