<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Ronald Dworkin]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=19257Author <![CDATA[Why Health Care Challenge Is Wrong]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The Supreme Court’s hearings in the health care case, Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, over a nearly unprecedented three days of oral argument, generated all the attention, passion, theater, and constant media and editorial coverage of a national election or a Super Bowl. Nothing in our history has more dramatically illustrated the unique importance of courtroom drama in American government and politics as well as entertainment.

 

]]> <![CDATA[Progressives Fail to Grasp Genius of U.S. Healthcare]]> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Every medical student learns an old adage: You can skimp on some medicine, but you can't skimp on obstetrics or anesthesiology. An elderly surgeon explained it to me this way, "In surgery, people die in days and weeks—a doctor has time to fix a mistake. But in obstetrics and anesthesiology, they die in minutes and seconds."

Twenty years ago, I became an anesthesiologist. Since then, whenever death has loomed in the operating room only to be sidestepped at the last moment, I think back on that wise surgeon. Indeed, the old adage explains why an anesthesiologist's life resembles a soldier's life. A soldier plays cards around the campfire, then goes out on routine patrol and...]]>