The Hill News

This week, when the Supreme Court hears an historic six hours of oral arguments about the constitutionality of the health insurance reform law, only a few dozen citizens at a time will be allowed into the chamber to watch and listen.
 
The Court’s decisions on the Affordable Care Act will decide whether the people’s elected representatives have the authority to regulate the nation’s health insurance market to make health care more affordable, to hold insurers accountable and to rein in runaway and unsustainable medical costs -- issues with profound pocketbook and personal health implications for every American family, and for the wellbeing of the nation.
 
Yet citizens will have to “earn” their right to see their highest court in action by standing in line, outside, overnight.  To so stringently limit access to such an important public proceeding makes no sense, especially in an age of such abundant and extraordinary communications tools.!

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