Healthcare

Written by the Nine? Healthcare Law and Over-Reliance on the Courts

Written by the Nine? Healthcare Law and Over-Reliance on the Courts

"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."

Filling the Gap in Health Coverage Among the Poor

Filling the Gap in Health Coverage Among the Poor

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?