Healthy, wealthy & fair
Subtitle: health care and the good society
By: edited by James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs.
Contributors: Morone, James A., 1951-; Jacobs, Lawrence R.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780195170665
Subjects: Health -- Social aspects -- United States; Medical economics -- United States; Equality -- Health aspects -- United States; Capitalism -- Health aspects -- United States; Medical policy -- United States
Other titles: Healthy, wealthy, and fair
Description: "In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair, a distinguished group of health policy experts charts the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United States. The authors explain how the inequities arise, why they persist, and what makes them worse. Growing income inequality, high poverty rates, and inadequate health care coverage: All three trends help account for the United States's health troubles. The corrosive effects of market ideology and government stalemate, the contributors argue, have also proved a powerful obstacle to effective and more egalitarian solutions." "A clarion call for a populist uprising to end the stalemate over health reform, Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair outlines concrete policy proposals for reform - tapping bold new ideas as well as incremental changes to existing programs. This important work will be indispensable to all those who care about health, inequality, and American democracy."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : health and wealth in the good society / James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs; title: Why the United States is not number one in health / Ichiro Kawachi; title: Health disparities in the land of equality / Lawrence R. Jacobs; title: How market ideology guarantees racial inequality / Deborah Stone; title: The dangers of the market panacea / Mark Schlesinger; title: Organized labor's incredible shrinking social vision / Marie Gottschalk; title: Interest groups and the reproduction of inequality / Constance A. Nathanson; title: The congressional graveyard for health care reform / Mark A.  Peterson; title: Courts, inequality, and health care / Peter D. Jacobson and Elizabeth Selvin; title: Medicaid at the crossroads / Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik; title: Kids and bureaucrats at the grass roots / Elizabeth H. Kilbreth and James A. Morone; title: Incrementalism adds up? / Lawrence D. Brown; title: What government can do / Benjamin I. Page; title: Conclusion : prospering in the age of global markets / Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. Morone.