Contributors
James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs: Introduction: Health and
Wealth in the Good Society
Part I: An American Dilemma
1: Ichiro Kawachi: Why the USA Is Not Number One in Health
2: Lawrence R. Jacobs: Health Disparities in the Land of
Equality
Part II: Corrosive Markets
3: Deborah Stone: How Market Ideology Guarantees Racial
Inequality
4: Mark Schlesinger: The Damages of the Market Panacea
Part III: Silent Groups
5: Marie Gottschalk: Organized Labor's Incredible, Shrinking Social
Vision
6: Connie A. Nathanson: Interest Groups and the Reproduction of
Inequality
Part IV: Chaotic Institutions
7: Mark A. Peterson: The Congressional Graveyard for Health Care
Reform
8: Peter D. Jacobson and Elisabeth Selvin: Courts, Inequality, and
Health Care
Part V: The Territory Ahead: Little Victories
9: Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik: Medicaid at the
Crossroads
10: Elizabeth H. Kilbreth and James A. Morone: Kids and Bureaucrats
at the Grass Roots
Part VI: The Territory Ahead: Thinking Big
11: Lawrence D. Brown: Incrementalism Adds Up?
12: Benjamin I. Page: What Government Can Do
Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. Morone: Conclusion: Prospering in
the Age of Global Markets
Essential Reading
Index
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.
"[This] book will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers,
public health and public policy scholars, and anyone interested in
a fairer and healthier society."--The New England Journal of
Medicine
"Americans want everyone to have access to decent health care--yet
in an era of rising economic inequality, our country is moving ever
further from that ideal. Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair asks why this
has happened, and illuminates the way forward. The arguments
assembled here are not timid. Many readers will heartily agree.
Others will demur. But all will be enlightened and engaged."--Theda
Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and
Sociology, Harvard University and author of The Missing Middle:
Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
"Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair makes crystal clear what many have felt
and feared: that the nation's growing concentration and
mal-distribution of wealth, besides breeding greater political
inequality, financial corruption and money worship, also strikes at
the health, physical well-being and life expectancy of less
advantaged Americans."--Kevin Phillips, author of Wealth and
Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
"Inequalities in wealth, income, knowledge and class cripple
democratic citizens; inequalities in health care destroy lives.
There is no more important issue for America than health care, and
no more pressing need that that of health care reform. In Healthy,
Wealthy, and Fair, distinguished health policy experts offer a
clear portrait of the impact of market economics on fair health
care and make a powerful case for bold health care reform.
Vital
reading for social scientists, policy makers and citizens
alike."--Benjamin R. Barber, Distinguished University Professor,
University of Maryland, and author of Strong Democracy and Jihad
vs. McWorld
"[This] book will surely resonate in the thoughts of policymakers,
public health and public policy scholars, and anyone interested in
a fairer and healthier society."--The New England Journal of
Medicine
"Americans want everyone to have access to decent health care--yet
in an era of rising economic inequality, our country is moving ever
further from that ideal. Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair asks why this
has happened, and illuminates the way forward. The arguments
assembled here are not timid. Many readers will heartily agree.
Others will demur. But all will be enlightened and engaged."--Theda
Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and
Sociology, Harvard University and author of The Missing Middle:
Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy
"Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair makes crystal clear what many have felt
and feared: that the nation's growing concentration and
mal-distribution of wealth, besides breeding greater political
inequality, financial corruption and money worship, also strikes at
the health, physical well-being and life expectancy of less
advantaged Americans."--Kevin Phillips, author of Wealth and
Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
"Inequalities in wealth, income, knowledge and class cripple
democratic citizens; inequalities in health care destroy lives.
There is no more important issue for America than health care, and
no more pressing need that that of health care reform. In Healthy,
Wealthy, and Fair, distinguished health policy experts offer a
clear portrait of the impact of market economics on fair health
care and make a powerful case for bold health care reform.
Vital
reading for social scientists, policy makers and citizens
alike."--Benjamin R. Barber, Distinguished University Professor,
University of Maryland, and author of Strong Democracy and Jihad
vs. McWorld
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