Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: health and wealth in the good society / James Morone and Lawrence Jacobs -- Why the USA is not number 1 in health / Ichiro Kawchi -- Health disparities in the land of equality / Lawrence 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 Peterson -- Courts, inequality, and health care / Peter Jacobson and Elisabeth Selvin -- Medicaid at the crossroads / Colleen Grogan and Erik Patashnik -- Kids and bureaucrats at the grass roots / Elizabeth Kilbreth and James Morone -- Incrementalism adds up? / Lawrence D. Brown -- What government can do / Ben Page -- Conclusion: prospering in an age of global markets / Lawrence Jacobs and James Morone.

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