David Blumenthal and James A. Morone — Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science - Senator Richard Blumenthal

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.David Blumenthal, professor of public health and health policy at Harvard University,he 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. Blumenthal and Morone are in conversation with Senator Richard Blumenthal. Originally sworn in on January 5, 2011, he is serving his third term as a United States Senator from the State of Connecticut. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he worked as assistant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan when he was Assistant to the President of the United States. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserves in 1970, and was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1976. After graduating law school in 1973, Senator Blumenthal clerked for U.S. District Judge Jon Newman, and then for United States Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He then transitioned to lead U.S. Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff's staff as an Administrative Assistant (now known as Chief of Staff).PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780300263480?ic_referral=a6Dp3-CWF3-2xUCtuDezgY94Y-eqGXIrFT1mk2wkatQwM-svJaTCA50ZkJeP5aS15-YWtOem-dEb7g3rQJPM4dCEpCzBzOo5sFTe51rQVSQOsosD99e-2DwzCchkDlVFCHfZHic