Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair Health Care and the Good Society

by Morone, James A.; Jacobs, Lawrence R.

• ISBN13: 9780195170665
• ISBN10: 0195170660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 explain how the inequities arise, why they persist, and what makes them worse. Growing income inequality, high poverty rates, andinadequate health care coverage: all three trends help account for the U.S.'s health troubles. The corrosive effects of market ideology and government stalemate, the contributors argue, have also proved a powerful obstacle to effective and more egalitarian solutions. A clarion call for a populist uprising to end the stalemate over health reform, Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair outlines concrete policy proposals for reform--tapping bold new ideas as well as incremental changes to existing programs. This important work will be indispensable to all those who care aboutour people's health, inequality, and American democracy.

Author Biography

James A. Morone is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His most recent book is Hellfire Nation.
Lawrence R. Jacobs is McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota, an adjunct professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, and director of the 2004 Elections Project. His most recent book is Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Introduction: Health and Wealth in the Good Society	3	(16)
JAMES A. MORONE AND LAWRENCE R. JACOBS
Part I. An American Dilemma
1 Why the United States Is Not Number One in Health	19	(18)
ICHIRO KAWACHI
2 Health Disparities in the Land of Equality	37	(28)
LAWRENCE R. JACOBS
Part II. Corrosive Markets
3 How Market Ideology Guarantees Racial Inequality	65	(26)
DEBORAH STONE
4 The Dangers of the Market Panacea	91	(46)
MARK SCHLESINGER
Part III. Silent Groups
5 Organized Labor's Incredible Shrinking Social Vision	137	(40)
MARIE GOTTSCHALK
6 Interest Groups and the Reproduction of Inequality	177	(28)
CONSTANCE A. NATHANSON
Part IV. Chaotic Institutions
7 The Congressional Graveyard for Health Care Reform	205	(30)
MARK A. PETERSON
8 Courts, Inequality, and Health Care	235	(32)
PETER D. JACOBSON AND ELIZABETH SELVIN
Part V. The Territory Ahead: Little Victories
9 Medicaid at the Crossroads	267	(30)
COLLEEN GROGAN AND ERIC PATASHNIK
10 Kids and Bureaucrats at the Grass Roots	297	(18)
ELIZABETH H. KILBRETH AND JAMES A. MORONE
Part VI. Thinking Big
11 Incrementalism Adds Up?	315	(22)
LAWRENCE D. BROWN
12 What Government Can Do	337	(18)
BENJAMIN I. PAGE
Conclusion: Prospering in the Age of Global Markets	355	(16)
LAWRENCE R. JACOBS AND JAMES A. MORONE
Essential Reading	371	(6)
Index	377