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, 2007. - xi, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: health and wealth in the good society / James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs -- Why the United States is not number one in health / Ichiro Kawchi -- Health disparities in the land of equality / Lawrence R. 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 A. Peterson -- Courts, inequality, and health care / Peter R. Jacobson and Elisabeth Selvin -- Medicaid at the crossroads / Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik -- Kids and bureaucrats at the grass roots / Elizabeth H. Kilbreth and James A. Morone -- Incrementalism adds up? / Lawrence D. Brown -- What government can do / Benjamin I. Page -- Conclusion: prospering in an age of global markets / Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. Morone.

9780195335255 (pbk.) 0195335252 (pbk.)

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Health--Social aspects--United States.
Medical economics--United States.
Equality--Health aspects--United States.
Capitalism--Health aspects--United States.
Medical policy--United States.

RA418.3.U6 / M868 2007

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