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3.9 AVERAGE
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textbook for class. interesting but also really boring
slow-paced
This book claims to write on an important topic, but was ultimately both uninformative and full of unnecessary detail. Despite the title, it contains little information on the impacts of politics on health. It is instead a comprehensive history of the logistics of attempts to reform US health policy but without any real discussion or evaluation of the content or merits of these reforms. Instead, it reads more as a ledger of political activities - giving many pages to explain the multiple meetings and letters that went into writing another letter or the tedium of scheduling meetings and setting up websites. May potentially be a useful read to anyone attempting to set up a lobbying group in the US.
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inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book could have been a bullet point timeline or a powerpoint slideshow.
It felt like a ridiculous amount of the word count was just listing all of the organizations that supported one specific policy or amendment or event.
While he makes some good points, most of those points are made within the first couple chapters and the rest is very drawn out. A great resource to pull quotes from on specific events, but it makes for a very, very dry read. Additionally, the verbiage he chooses makes it so I feel that if I didn't already agree with him that these trends exist in our society, he probably would not convince me of it. More specifically, the entire book is very left-wing and does not explain any right-wing points of view on the matter whatsoever. Quotes he pulls from Republican representatives are vague and do nothing to explain why they oppose the specific policies or ideas--whether the author agrees with them or not, it's useful to the reader to at least explain them. Otherwise, it just detracts from his own point--which it does.
It felt like a ridiculous amount of the word count was just listing all of the organizations that supported one specific policy or amendment or event.
While he makes some good points, most of those points are made within the first couple chapters and the rest is very drawn out. A great resource to pull quotes from on specific events, but it makes for a very, very dry read. Additionally, the verbiage he chooses makes it so I feel that if I didn't already agree with him that these trends exist in our society, he probably would not convince me of it. More specifically, the entire book is very left-wing and does not explain any right-wing points of view on the matter whatsoever. Quotes he pulls from Republican representatives are vague and do nothing to explain why they oppose the specific policies or ideas--whether the author agrees with them or not, it's useful to the reader to at least explain them. Otherwise, it just detracts from his own point--which it does.
informative
reflective
medium-paced