After a year-long political war, in March 2010 Leader Obama as well as the Democratic leaders of Congress achieved a victory that has eluded lawmakers for seventy-five years: an overhaul of America’s health-care system. In this essential book, the personnel of the Washington Post tells the story of health-care reform and points out what this means for the American people.

In the book’s first section, the Washington Post’s reporter inlayed in the White House offers a behind-the-scenes narrative of about Landmark: The Inside Story of America’s New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All how Obama as well as the Democrats pushed through health-care reform in the face of nearly unanimous Republican opposition. This section traces the tortured evolution from the legislation, showing how the Senate killed the public option, how the January 2010 success of Republican senator Scott Dark brown still left the Democrats scrambling, and exactly how Democratic leaders ultimately negotiated among entrenched politics factions-including disillusioned Democrats-to reach a bargain.

What does this last deal include? The book’s second section has an available summary from the legislation that Obama agreed upon into law in March 2010. In the third section, Washington Post authors answer one of the most pressing queries about the health-care legislation’s instant impact. Most importantly, how will the new bill affect individuals-small-business owners, uninsured Us citizens with pre-existing conditions, and twenty-somethings on the parents’ policies? This is a must-read for anyone who would like to understand how this legislation happened and what the brand new health-care system means.