New health care law helping middle-class families

Twenty-six states are challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law because it compels all Americans to have qualified coverage starting in 2014. As that case and others move forward, it is important to remember how profoundly Medicare and Social Security altered the lives of senior citizens and middle-class families. [A column by former UW-Madison Chancellor Donna E. Shalala, former U.S. secretary of health and human services].