Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science by Blumenthal, David
Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science by Blumenthal, David

Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science

Based on extensive inside sources, a revealing account of how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations transformed...
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Author: David Blumenthal
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science by Blumenthal, David

Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science

$107.99 $60.00
Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science by Blumenthal, David

Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science

$107.99 $60.00
Author: David Blumenthal
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Based on extensive inside sources, a revealing account of how the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations transformed both health care and politics in America

For nearly a century, every Democratic president--and many Republicans--entered office promising to restructure America's health care system. Barack Obama finally broke through but, in the process, opened a tumultuous decade in which battles over health care dominated American politics. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone go behind the scenes to describe how three very different presidents--pursuing very different goals--maneuvered through the fraught politics of health care.

President Obama ended the century-long quest for reform but ignited a screaming culture war that blazed into the Trump administration and blew up during the COVID epidemic. President Trump, facing the greatest health crisis in a century, denied and dithered. Then he directed a medical triumph in Operation Warp Speed. He and President Biden, facing the pandemic's devastation, mounted the most successful anti-poverty program in eighty years. But in the tumult, Trump launched a shattering new political war, not over coverage but over science itself.

Authoritative and gripping, this book describes the remarkable achievements of these years while also showing how respect for science clashed with scorn toward the deep state and left the nation unprepared for the next health crisis.

Author: David Blumenthal,James a. Morone
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/24/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.47h x 6.41w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780300263480

About the Author

David Blumenthal, professor of the practice of public health and health policy at Harvard University, is former national coordinator for Health Information Technology. James A. Morone is the John Hazen White Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Public Policy, and Urban Studies at Brown University.


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