Perspective
Jul. 14, 2012
Health care requires look at law and morality
American health care has morphed into many stages in recent history, yet it is still fundamentally flawed as many are denied health care simply because they cannot afford it. By Jeffrey A. Lowe
"Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane," Martin Luther King once wrote. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the issue of affordable health care was decided on abstract legal arguments instead of morality. At its root, the lack of health care for all in America is fundamentally a moral issue.
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