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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464866703321

Titolo

Healthy, wealthy & fair [[electronic resource] ] : health care and the good society / / edited by James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-533525-2

1-4237-2062-8

0-19-803813-5

1-280-70437-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (395 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MoroneJames A. <1951->

JacobsLawrence R

Disciplina

362.1/0973

Soggetti

Health - Social aspects - United States

Medical economics - United States

Equality - Health aspects - United States

Capitalism - Health aspects - United States

Medical policy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but its citizens rank near the bottom in health status. Americans have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities and higher adolescent death rates than most other advanced industrial nations - and even some developing countries. Though Americans are famous for tolerating great inequality in wealth, the gross inequities in the health system are less well recognized. In ""Healthy, Wealthy and Fair"", a distinguished group of health policy experts chart the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United States. The authors ex