By Norman Daniels, Donald W. Light, and Ronald L. Caplan. 198 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-510237-1.
The failure of the 103rd Congress to pass any kind of healthcare–reform bill in 1994 was stunning and depressing.Stunning, because no one thought such an outcome was even remotelypossible, and depressing, because it induced dark thoughts aboutthe American commitment to justice. The fact that there werethen an estimated 37 million uninsured people (there are nowas many as 41 million) was widely acknowledged to be unfair,yet no reform measure was passed. The lingering questions arewhether Congress might someday be willing to pass a bill characterizedby fairness and what such a bill might . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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