Introduction: health and wealth in the good society / James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs
Why the United States is not number one in health / Ichiro Kawachi
Health disparities in the land of equality / Lawrence R. 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 / Constance A. Nathanson
The congressional graveyard for health care reform / Mark A. Peterson
Courts, inequality, and health care / Peter D. Jacobson and Elizabeth Selvin
Medicaid at the crossroads / Colleen Grogan and Eric Patashnik
Kids and bureaucrats at the grass roots / Elizabeth H. Kilbreth and James A. Morone
Incrementalism adds up? / Lawrence D. Brown
What government can do / Benjamin I. Page
Conclusion: prospering in the age of global markets / Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. Morone.