Healthy, Wealthy, & Fair: Health Care and the Good Society

✍ Scribed by James A. Morone, Lawrence R. Jacobs

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 395
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair a distinguished group of health policy experts pointedly examines this troubling paradox, as they chart the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United States. Rich in insight and extensive in scope, these incisive essays explain how growing income inequality, high poverty rates, and inadequate coverage combine to create the U.S.'s current healthcare difficulties. Ultimately, Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair not only identifies the problems contributing to America's healthcare woes but also outlines concrete policy proposals for reform, issuing a clarion call to end the stalemate over health reform.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: Health and Wealth in the Good Society......Page 16
Part I. An American Dilemma......Page 30
1 Why the United States Is Not Number One in Health......Page 32
2 Health Disparities in the Land of Equality......Page 50
Part II. Corrosive Markets......Page 76
3 How Market Ideology Guarantees Racial Inequality......Page 78
4 The Dangers of the Market Panacea......Page 104
Part III. Silent Groups......Page 148
5 Organized Labor's Incredible Shrinking Social Vision......Page 150
6 Interest Groups and the Reproduction of Inequality......Page 190
Part IV. Chaotic Institutions......Page 216
7 The Congressional Graveyard for Health Care Reform......Page 218
8 Courts, Inequality, and Health Care......Page 248
Part V. The Territory Ahead: Little Victories......Page 278
9 Medicaid at the Crossroads......Page 280
10 Kids and Bureaucrats at the Grass Roots......Page 310
Part VI. Thinking Big......Page 326
11 Incrementalism Adds Up?......Page 328
12 What Government Can Do......Page 350
Conclusion: Prospering in the Age of Global Markets......Page 368
Essential Reading......Page 384
C......Page 390
H......Page 391
M......Page 392
R......Page 393
U......Page 394
Z......Page 395