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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生物伦理学与法治：古典自由主义理论。

在美国，有关医疗保健政策的激烈辩论表明，需要一个既可以维持道德多样性又可以和平合作的法律框架。有人认为，以自由的道德原则为基础的古典自由法治就是这样的框架。该文件显示了美国当前的医疗政策前景在多大程度上与法治背道而驰，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，由于立法机构的结构，无法实现法治。第二个反对意见是政府应保障自由和所有必要的自治条件。