04091nam 22008294a 450 991081785760332120200520144314.00-19-029101-X0-19-533525-21-4237-2062-80-19-803813-51-280-70437-3(CKB)2560000000298732(EBL)280976(OCoLC)476025264(SSID)ssj0000169689(PQKBManifestationID)11171095(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169689(PQKBWorkID)10203368(PQKB)10654478(SSID)ssj0001038299(PQKBManifestationID)12451319(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001038299(PQKBWorkID)11050330(PQKB)11770290(StDuBDS)EDZ0000039219(DNLM)101205571(MiAaPQ)EBC280976(Au-PeEL)EBL280976(CaPaEBR)ebr10103647(CaONFJC)MIL70437(OCoLC)466432610(OCoLC)54408239(FINmELB)ELB164485(EXLCZ)99256000000029873220040204d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHealthy, wealthy & fair health care and the good society /edited by James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (395 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-517066-0 0-19-985020-8 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.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 exHealthy, wealthy, and fairHealthSocial aspectsUnited StatesMedical economicsUnited StatesEqualityHealth aspectsUnited StatesCapitalismHealth aspectsUnited StatesMedical policyUnited StatesHealthSocial aspectsMedical economicsEqualityHealth aspectsCapitalismHealth aspectsMedical policy362.1/0973Morone James A.1951-1646153Jacobs Lawrence R254421MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817857603321Healthy, wealthy & fair4108827UNINA