Healthy, wealthy & fair health care and the good society / [electronic resource] : Healthy, wealthy, and fair edited by James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xi, 382 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: health and wealth in the good society / Why the USA is not number 1 in health / Health disparities in the land of equality / How market ideology guarantees racial inequality / The dangers of the market panacea / Organized labor's incredible, shrinking, social vision / Interest groups and the reproduction of inequality / The congressional graveyard for health care reform / Courts, inequality, and health care / Medicaid at the crossroads / Kids and bureaucrats at the grass roots / Incrementalism adds up? / What government can do / Conclusion: prospering in an age of global markets / James Morone and Lawrence Jacobs -- Ichiro Kawchi -- Lawrence Jacobs -- Deborah Stone -- Mark Schlesinger -- Marie Gottschalk -- Connie A. Nathanson -- Mark Peterson -- Peter Jacobson and Elisabeth Selvin -- Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik -- Elizabeth Kilbreth and James Morone -- Lawrence D. Brown -- Ben Page -- Lawrence Jacobs and James Morone.


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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.


Electronic books.

RA418.3.U6 / H436 2005eb

362.1/0973