Why should anyone—the state, the medical profession, or anyone else—presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?
Marcia Angell, May Doctors Help You to Die?
Photo: Jacques-Louis David: The Death of Socrates, 1787 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Art Resource)
Ronald Dworkin, Why the Health Care Challenge Is Wrong
American health care is an unjust and expensive shambles; only a comprehensive national program can even begin to repair it. If the Supreme Court does declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, it will have ruled that Congress lacks the power to adopt what it thought the most effective, efficient, fair, and politically viable remedy—not because that national remedy would violate anybody’s rights, or limit anyone’s liberty in ways a state government could not, or would be otherwise unfair, but for the sole reason that in the Court’s opinion the strict and arbitrary language of an antique Constitution denies our national legislature the power to enact the only politically possible national program.
Photo: Franz Jantzen
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