Has anything been more controversial or more consequential then the ongoing battle over US healthcare reform? My guest, Richard Kirsch, spent three years at the epicenter of the fight to pass the Affordable Care Act. He worked inside the Beltway, alongside and sometimes at odds with the Obama administration, and with activists across the US as head of Healthcare for America Now, a grassroots campaign of over 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people. His new book, Fighting for Our Health: The Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right in the United States, describes the ten
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