By Lu Ann Aday. 375 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1993. $41.95. ISBN 1-55542-503-8.
The rhetoric of health care reform now bombards us daily, withthe often unspoken message that once there is universal healthinsurance, the health problems of America's vulnerable populationswill cease to exist or to be matters of concern. Two recentpapers in the Journal speak forcefully to this point. In thefirst, Pappas et al. point out that although death rates inthe United States have declined in the past three decades, povertyand educational attainment remain powerfully associated withmortality. Poor and poorly educated Americans continue to dieat higher rates than their better-off counterparts (New EnglandJournal . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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