Volume 41, Number 1 & 2 · January 13, 1994
Will Clinton's Plan Be Fair?
By Ronald Dworkin
Health Security Act
103d Congress, 1st Session
US Government Printing Office, 1,342 pp., $45.00 (paper)
President Clinton's Health Security Act is the most important piece of domestic legislation since the Civil Rights Acts, and because it is an attempt to reform one seventh of America's economy, it could prove the most significant economic change since the New Deal. Though no congressional vote is expected for about a year, the act has already been comprehensively analyzed and debated by politicians, doctors' associations, health-care economists, insurance companies, small and large business groups, and journalists. Very little attention has been given to the most profound issue it raises. How do we decide whether the Health Security Act, or any other structure for medical care in the United States, is fair?
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