"I want to suggest that this is perhaps an instance of the larger problem of over-reliance on the courts to be the final definitive interpretation of laws that are either ambiguously written or ambiguously interpreted. This is problematic for doing justice, not because the courts are incapable of rendering just decisions, but because they are, by nature, a last resort."

"If there is a “compassion gap,” current and former foster youth certainly fall into it. To penalize them for having the misfortune of being parented by the state and not their biological parents seems like a fundamental disregard for their dignity and desperate need for healthcare."

It is easy to get caught up in conversation about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rollout and implementation is going, but it seems that such a dialogue overshadows the more necessary conversation of why healthcare is important.

One of the major moral drivers of the push for health care reform in the U.S. was the unconscionable number of uninsured Americans—close to 50 million, many from low-income working families—who lacked access to quality health care. Although the details of health policy are enormously complex, the justice of providing basic, necessary health care to poor Americans is fairly simple. But is the president’s landmark health care reform legislation accomplishing this goal?