By Julie Schonfeld
Originally posted in The Washington Post
This week’s Supreme Court hearings on the president’s health care plan will likely generate this court’s signature decision of a generation. That but a few of the complex matters pertaining to our country’s long debate over health care should finally come before the court is no surprise. As de Tocqueville observed about American courts in the earliest days of our republic: “Few laws can escape the searching analysis of the judicial power for any length of time.” It was inevitable, therefore, that one of the most significant laws concerning health care to ever be passed in the United States would be subject to Supreme Court scrutiny... [read more]