As my mother always said, "What is this world coming to?"
On Tuesday night, NPR Court Correspondent Nina Totenberg observed what a change there had been in the American people in ten years as she reported on the health care debates at the Supreme Court. She remembered the time of outrage when citizens discovered that people were dying or becoming injured for life when they were turned away from emergency rooms for lack of the means to pay. This had led to a unanimous decision that if care was available and could stop death or severe injury, it shouldn’t be withheld based on money. Now she is witnessing rallies when crowds posed with the question of what to do with these people at emergency rooms calling out “Let them die!” (How Lenten – they sound like the crowds shouting for the release of Barabas.) And three court justices have queried whether we should do this, a question that would not have even been acceptable in times past. Our hottest movie for youth right now is “Hunger Games”, where adults from the government force youth to play...