A scholar of social policy learns first-hand exactly how the social system works when her sister-in-law in California suffers a devastating automobile accident. The woman was uninsured because her husband's employer did not offer health insurance. The family could not afford it on their own.
ON the second day of oral arguments over the Affordable Care Act, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., trying to explain what sets health care apart, told the Supreme Court, "This is a market in which you may be healthy one day and you may be a very unhealthy participant in that market the next day."
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