America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. InHealthy, Wealthy, and Faira distinguished group of health policy experts pointedly examines this troubling paradox, as they chart the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United States. Rich in insight and extensive in scope, these incisive essays explain how growing income inequality, high poverty rates, and inadequate coverage combine to create the U.S.'s current healthcare difficulties. Ultimately,Healthy, Wealthy, and Fairnot only identifies the problems contributing to America's healthcare woes but also outlines concrete policy proposals for reform, issuing a clarion call to end the stalemate over health reform.
Contributors Introduction: Health and Wealth in the Good Society,James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs Part I: An American Dilemma 1. Why the USA Is Not Number One in Health,Ichiro Kawachi 2. Health Disparities in the Land of Equality,Lawrence R. Jacobs Part II: Corrosive Markets 3. How Market Ideology Guarantees Racial Inequality,Deborah Stone 4. The Damages of the Market Panacea,Mark Schlesinger Part III: Silent Groups 5. Organized Labor's Incredible, Shrinking Social Vision,Marie Gottschalk 6. Interest Groups and the Reproduction of Inequality,Connie A. Nathanson Part IV: Chaotic Institutions 7. The Congressional Graveyard for Health Care Reform,Mark A. Peterson 8. Courts, Inequality, and Health Care,Peter D. Jacobson and Elisabeth Selvin Part V: The Territory Ahead: Little Victories 9. Medicaid at the Crossroads,Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik
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