Health is a "private matter"

...and a company's value should not depend on one person. I mean, they have a few thousand other people working for them. It's not like Steve Jobs is putting each iPhone together himself.

Since the WSJ is a bunch of tight asses, here's a particularly relevant and disturbing quote from the ungated version of the article:

"In 2004, one hedge fund hired private investigators to tail Mr. Jobs to hospital appointments in the hopes of figuring out how sick he was, said a portfolio manager at the fund. Eventually, he said, Mr. Jobs "seemed to catch on," and became harder to track."

Here is the NY Times take on the subject.