Dr. Anthony Robbins, who died September 13 at 85, spent more than five decades asking a question that most of medicine preferred to leave unanswered: what does a society owe its poorest members when they are sick? He did not merely ask it — he built clinics, trained physicians, and shaped policy in pursuit of a concrete reply. His passing closes one chapter of that effort while leaving the deeper question, and the work it demands, very much open.