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73 S. Cal. L. Rev. 277 (1999-2000)
Viewing Health Care as a Common Good: Looking Beyond Political Liberalism

handle is hein.journals/scal73 and id is 293 raw text is: VIEWING HEALTH CARE AS A COMMON GOOD: LOOKING BEYOND POLITICAL LIBERALISM KEVIN P. QUINN, S.J.* INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 278 I. CLINTON'S HEALTH CARE PLAN AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM ................................................................................ 280 II. HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM ................................................................................ 290 A. LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM ........................................................ 290 B. LIBERAL NEUTRALITY ............................................................. 297 C. HEALTH CARE POLICY IN A LIBERAL POLITY ......................... 302 III. HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THE COMMON GOOD ......... 305 A. A CATHOLIC NOTION OF THE COMMON GOOD ....................... 306 B. RAWLS' POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND THE COMMON GOOD .... 317 C. HEALTH CARE POLICY AND THE POLITICAL COMMON G OOD ....................................................................................... 324 IV. HEALTH CARE AS A POLITICAL COMMON GOOD: THE OREGON PLAN ............................................................................ 326 A. THE OREGON HEALTH PLAN ................................................... 327 1. Background ....................................................................... 327 2. The Legislation .................................................................. 335 3. The Process and the 1991 Prioritized List ........................ 337 a. The Methodology ......................................................... 338 * Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. A.B. 1979, Fordham University; M.Div. 1985, S.T.L. 1990, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; J.D. 1988, Ph.D. 1993, University of California at Berkeley. I wish to thank Gregg Bloche, Steve Goldberg, John Langan, Mitt Regan, and Kevin Wildes for their helpful comments on earlier drafts; Chris Dunnigan, Kristin Hespos, and Staci Krupp for their valuable research assistance; and the Georgetown University Law Center's Summer Research Grant Program for its support. Any errors that remain are mine.

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