ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare Paperback – Illustrated, October 2, 2012

I wish that those who voted for ObamaCare had been required first to read the entire law and then this book! What a travesty confronts us, especially the seniors who will be treated so shabbily by the program into which we have paid so much. With bad news on almost every page, this book still has value in preparing readers for the changes, some good and many bad, that are being implemented in transforming a less-than-perfect capitalistic health care system into one that is unabashedly socialistic and that will negatively affect a major portion of the nation's economy. The fact that most of ObamaCare's sales pitches were lies gives American's less and less reason to trust either the president or the congress; this book gives the details and how to cope with what has been rammed down our throats without recourse. Read it to be ready. One hopes that "excesses are their own undoing" will either bring substantial changes or a complete return to common-sense government AND health care insurance.

I purchased this book because it has been advertised as a good resource tool for the new health care law entitled ObamaCare. This book is obviously written by someone who does not favor Obamacare (2700 pages of legislation). This book is 227 pages long and it does outline and explain how ObamaCare will change healthcare in The United States of America and how all citizens will be affected by it. Whether you agree with ObamaCare or not it is important to understand the policies that will take effect in the years to come. This book does explain what will take place. It is organized into 16 Chapters which touch every phase of life. It talks about many existing programs and how the new law changes them. Further, it goes into great depth about the pros and cons of ObamaCare. Many Americans are on either side of ObamaCare. It is important to understand how ObamaCare affects you.

It's OK and somewhat helpful. I would say for someone who knows absolutely NOTHING about ObamaCare, it might be useful. However, ObamaCare changes daily it seems so who knows if it's actually still current or not. Personally, I don't think it's possible to survive ObamaCare. I think we are doomed to the very inferior socialized medicine plan now and I think we might be beyond the tipping point. Not sure there's any turning back. Oh, how I wish it would be totally repealed. I hope younger people totally rebel against it and just flat out do NOT sign up for it. The burden is on their backs to pay for it for all the people who are too lazy to work for their own benefits. It will totally bankrupt this country but, of course, that's the intended plan for it anyway.

Nancy Pelosi uttered the words in the title of this posting when she was Speaker of the House, Back then virtually no senator or representative had read thousands of pages and it is a good bet as of this date few have. The ObamaCare Survival Guide by Nick Tate gave most of us at least a basic understanding of what the law was about.One thing that is not the author's fault is that the law as was enacted didn't anticipate the number of Executive Orders and so on that changed deadlines and procedures over a dozen times and to the point that some in Congress want this executive power to change passed legislation to end. But that part of the law is being rewritten as you read this.But by reading this book you can understand most of what is going on today and what healthcare providers can look forward to in the not too distant future. It is worth the reading.

Yes, the Affordable Health Care Act is complicated, with multiple rollouts of different provisions. As a person who will be going on Medicare soon, with elderly family members, I was looking forward to a guide to what the provisions of the Act would provide for me, my family, and lower to middle class folks in the US.What I wasn't expecting was yet another view of the Act from the perspective of those that opposed it. I completely support ObamaCare (which is not a pejorative, as the President himself says he likes it), yet I would like to understand its details better. Instead, this book presents the provisions from a negative perspective that makes it hard to read and impossible to get a balanced understanding.The onus was on me to be sure it was the book I was looking for before I bought it, but I muffed. I'm writing this to help others not do the same, if this is not what they are looking for. My copy just arrived, and it's now in the recycle bin.

You will find two general categories of reviews here on Amazon, those from people who embrace the new law (calling it the affordable health care act), and the rest of us, who call it ObamaCare. I wanted a neutral book so I could build a check-list for continued study. This book provides a good overview, and a little more. As far as I can discern, the author has avoided taking sides in this most polarizing debate. That does not mean the author avoids drawing inferences from the information he presents - he does - but this is not a political book. No matter what side you plan to take in the decades long battle over ObamaCare, I think you would be wise to begin with the neutral analysis Tate has provided. Some reviews have asked for more information, but by using the book to narrow further study to the sub-topics you have a particular interest in, readers can study further with more efficiency. If you then take an informed political position on the new law, you can argue that position from a sound factual basis.

I was looking for specific info and this book did not provide it. It gives very general information, and not much on each topic. It's good enough if you want a broad overview, but if you're looking for specifics, spend your money elsewhere. I found that I could have located this information for free with very little looking. It's not often I'm disappointed in a book, especially one that's marketed to be informational, but this book was a real let down. Buyer be ware.