Healthy, wealthy & fair :

Healthy, wealthy & fair : health care and the good society / Healthy, wealthy, and fair edited by James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xi, 382 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: health and wealth in the good society / James Morone and Lawrence Jacobs -- Why the USA is not number 1 in health / Ichiro Kawchi -- Health disparities in the land of equality / Lawrence Jacobs -- How market ideology guarantees racial inequality / Deborah Stone -- The dangers of the market panacea / Mark Schlesinger -- Organized labor's incredible, shrinking, social vision / Marie Gottschalk -- Interest groups and the reproduction of inequality / Connie A. Nathanson -- The congressional graveyard for health care reform / Mark Peterson -- Courts, inequality, and health care / Peter Jacobson and Elisabeth Selvin -- Medicaid at the crossroads / Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik -- Kids and bureaucrats at the grass roots / Elizabeth Kilbreth and James Morone -- Incrementalism adds up? / Lawrence D. Brown -- What government can do / Ben Page -- Conclusion: prospering in an age of global markets / Lawrence Jacobs and James Morone.

0195170660 (cloth : alk. paper)

2004002575


Health--Social aspects--United States.
Medical economics--United States.
Equality--Health aspects--United States.
Capitalism--Health aspects--United States.
Medical policy--United States.
Health Policy--United States.
Delivery of Health Care--economics--United States.
Health Planning--United States.
Insurance, Health--economics--United States.
Politics--United States.
Socioeconomic Factors--United States.

RA418.3.U6 / H436 2005

362.1/0973

WA 540 AA1 / H4858 2004
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