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The definitive story of american health care today. A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more costeffective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of us health spending. Rather than spending most of its pages arguing the strengths and weaknesses of the aca, reinventing american health care mostly explains what the aca actually encompasses. For people who want to understand exactly what each clause of the act means and why it was included. The last section is his view of the future of american health care the source of the excerpts above. These programs are intended to increase innovation and foster patient care.