Heated debates over healthcare policy in the United States point to the need for a legal framework that can sustain both moral diversity and peaceful cooperation. It is argued that the classical liberal Rule of Law, with its foundation in the ethical principle of permission, is such a framework. The paper shows to what extent the current healthcare policy landscape in the United States diverges from the rule of law and suggests how the current framework could be modified in order to better approximate that ideal. Two objections are then answered. The first is that the rule of law cannot be realized due to the structure of legislatures. The second objection is that government should guarantee both liberty and all of the necessary conditions of autonomy.

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生命伦理学和法治：古典自由主义理论。


美国有关医疗保健政策的激烈争论表明需要一个能够维持道德多样性与和平合作的法律框架。有人认为，以许可伦理原则为基础的古典自由主义法治就是这样一个框架。该论文展示了美国当前的医疗保健政策格局与法治的背离程度，并提出了如何修改当前框架以更好地接近这一理想的建议。然后回答了两个反对意见。首先是立法机关的结构导致法治无法实现。第二个反对意见是政府应该保障自由和自治的所有必要条件。