Richard Kirsch is an Institute Fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He has 36 years of experience leading citizen campaigns on health care, campaign finance reform, and other issues. As national campaign manager for Health Care for America Now he appeared on PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CNN, ABC's World News Tonight and Good Morning America, Fox, C-SPAN, and The Colbert Report He was frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and I The Wall Street Journal
Foreword
p. ix
Acknowledgments
p. xiii
Acronyms
p. xviii
Introduction: The Great Quest
p. 1
Thumb Out in Both Directions
p. 7
The Solution Is the Problem
p. 25
Building Health Care for America Now
p. 47
Ready, Set, Go!
p. 65
Health Care in the 2008 Election
p. 83
The Economy or Health Care?
p. 105
From the Ground Up - Champions
p. 121
From the Ground Up - Swings
p. 143
The Happy Warrior
p. 161
No HELP for the Gang of Six
p. 171
The Guns of August
p. 189
The White House Waffles
p. 213
If the Insurance Companies Win - You Lose
p. 225
The Baucus Bill Is a Failure
p. 239
Did the White House Try to Get Me Fired?
p. 259
The House Makes History
p. 267
Harry's Dilemma
p. 285
Lieberman's Revenge
p. 301
Christmas Eve
p. 311
Not Again!
p. 319
Stop Big Insurance - Congress Listens to Us
p. 329
Fighting for Our Health
p. 345
Epilogue: The Fight Goes On
p. 357
Notes
p. 373
Bibliography
p. 381
Index
p. 383
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