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

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

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

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

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190291013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/10/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

James A. Morone is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of over 100 articles and essays and is a frequent contributor to The American Prospect and the London Review of Books. His most recent book is Hellfire Nation. Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies at the University of Minnesota. His most recent books include Inequality and American Democracy with Theda Skocpol and Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness with Robert Y. Shapiro.

Table of Contents

ContributorsIntroduction: Health and Wealth in the Good Society, James A. Morone and Lawrence R. JacobsPart I: An American Dilemma1. Why the USA Is Not Number One in Health, Ichiro Kawachi2. Health Disparities in the Land of Equality, Lawrence R. JacobsPart II: Corrosive Markets3. How Market Ideology Guarantees Racial Inequality, Deborah Stone4. The Damages of the Market Panacea, Mark SchlesingerPart III: Silent Groups5. Organized Labor's Incredible, Shrinking Social Vision, Marie Gottschalk6. Interest Groups and the Reproduction of Inequality, Connie A. NathansonPart IV: Chaotic Institutions7. The Congressional Graveyard for Health Care Reform, Mark A. Peterson8. Courts, Inequality, and Health Care, Peter D. Jacobson and Elisabeth SelvinPart V: The Territory Ahead: Little Victories9. Medicaid at the Crossroads, Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik10. Kids and Bureaucrats at the Grass Roots, Elizabeth H. Kilbreth and James A. MoronePart VI: The Territory Ahead: Thinking Big11. Incrementalism Adds Up?, Lawrence D. Brown12. What Government Can Do, Benjamin I. PageConclusion: Prospering in the Age of Global Markets, Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. MoroneEssential ReadingIndex
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