America's Bitter Pill By Steven Brill

Excellent non-fiction book that describes in intimate detail how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) got developed, passed, and implemented.  Brill does a very good job of making a non-fiction, recent historical story, become an interesting drama. He provides just enough personal information about each of the participants or "characters" in the story to allow readers to understand the point of view of the character. The booke is written chronologically and goes from the start of the writing of the law, all the way through to the starting the "final" version of the Healthcare.gov website.    It has so much detailed description about all of the people and organizations involved, that it is hard to believe that Brill was able to gather it all.  I think it is a valuable historical document, from the standpoint of documenting what happened.  It appears that Brill attempted to write it as objectively as possible by describing each event.  However, as I read, it seemed that the Democrats were the "good guys" often making compromises in order to get the bill passes.  While the Republicans were generally obstructionists.  Yes, there was incompetence in some cases.  Yes, there were some minor acts subterfuge and broken promises.  Certainly there was a lot of give & take by all involved.
I think anyone who objects to "Obamacare" should read the book to understand all sides of the problem.  It also might help anyone who is proposing changes to the ACA to understand the history of how it got where it is.  That information could be helpful in understanding where all of the vested interests lie.