Foreword / Lori Lightfoot -- Preface : one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette ; structural violence and the death gap ; Location, location, location ; Perception is reality ; the three Bs : beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain : life and death...

This article explores the hypothesis that the U.S. health care system operates more like a robber baron than like Robin Hood, burdening ordinary payers of health insurance premiums disproportionately for the benefit of industry interests and higher-income consumer-taxpayers. Thus, lower- and...