Proposes a universal definition of fairness and a set of criteria to measure which health care reform policies are more fair and why.

1. Fairness and the Politics of Health Care Reform 2. American Values and the Fairness of Health Care Reform 3. Benchmarks of Fairness 4. Using the Benchmarks to Score Insurance Reform 5. Using the Benchmarks to Score Health Care Reform 6. Reorganization or Reform? The Fairness of Current Trends 7. Prospects for Fair Reform

Norman DanielsGoldthwaite Professor of Philosophy and Community Medicine, Tufts University, Donald W. LightProfessor of Social and Behavioral Medicine, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Ronald L. CaplanAssistant Professor of Public Health, Richard Stockton State College

"We still lack good standards and guidelines for the organization of a decent health care system in the United States. This book makes an enormous contribution toward that critically important goal, setting out standards of fairness, providing us with guidelines to find the right direction here, and giving us the ingredients necessary for a far better debate the next time."--Daniel Callahan, President, The Hastings Center |k No