Chapter 8.A.1: The Right to Healthcare

To insert after Ch. 8.A.1 (p. 713):

For discussions of the moral foundation and meaning of the right to health care, see Norman Daniels, Just Health Care 27-29 (1985); Richard Epstein, Mortal Peril: Regulating Health Care in America (1997), which contains an extensive argument against entitlements and positive rights to health care; Timothy Jost, Disentitlement: Health Care Entitlements and the Threats That They Face (2003); Gabriel Scheffler, Equality and Sufficiency in Health Care Reform. 81 Md. L. Rev. 144 (2021); Christina Ho, Are We Suffering From an Undiagnosed Health Right?, 42 Am. J. L. & Med. 743 (2016); Lindsay Wiley, From Patient Rights to Health Justice: Securing the Public’s Interest in Affordable, High-Quality Health Care, 37 Cardozo Law Review 833 (2016); Sidney Watson, Metaphors, Meaning, and Health Reform, 54 St. Louis U. L. J. 1313 (2010); Einer Elhauge, Allocating Health Care Morally, 82 Cal. L. Rev. 1449 (1995); Andre Hampton, Markets, Myths, and a Man on the Moon: Aiding and Abetting America’s Flight from Health Insurance, 52 Rutgers L. Rev. 987 (2000); Kevin P. Quinn, Viewing Health Care as a Common Good: Looking Beyond Political Liberalism, 73 S. Cal. L. Rev. 277 (2000); Jennifer P. Ruger, Toward a Theory of a Right to Health, 18 Yale J. L. & Human. 273 (2006); Note, Universal Access to Health Care, 108 Harv. L. Rev. 1323 (1995); Symposium, 36 J. Med. & Phil. 529 (2011); and the excerpt by Ronald Dworkin at page 1124.

For discussions of a legal right to health care, generally, see Mila Versteeg & Emily Zackin, American Constitutional Exceptionalism Revisited, 81 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1641 (2014) (observing that “a whopping 72% [of the world’s written constitutions] include a right to health care”); Erin C. Fuse Brown. Developing a Durable Right to Health Care, 14 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 439 (2013); Abigail Moncrieff, The Freedom of Health, 159 Penn. L. Rev. 2209 (2011); Puneet K. Sandhu, A Legal Right to Health Care: What Can the United States Learn from Foreign Models of Health Rights Jurisprudence?, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1151 (2007) (arguing, based on experience in other countries, that a legal right to health care is justiciable); Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, State Constitutionalism and Health Care, 12 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1327 (2010) (noting lack of enforcement of relevant state constitutional provisions); Alan Jenkins & Sabrineh Ardalan, Positive Health: The Human Right to Health Care Under the New York State Constitution, 35 Fordham Urb. L. J. 479 (2008).

For discussions of the safety net, see Mark Hall & Sara Rosenbaum eds., The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World (2012); Mark A. Hall, Approaching Universal Coverage with Better Safety-Net Programs for the Uninsured, 11 Yale J. Health Pol’y, L. & Ethics 9 (2011); Symposium, 31(8) Health Aff. (2012); Symposium, 26(5) Health Aff. (2007); Symposium, 25(3) Health Aff. (2006).