No one should die because they cannot afford health care and no one should go broke because they become sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
I've kept pretty quiet so far when things like this pop up, but I've finally snapped. I don't care to remain quiet any more.
My response to the above is the following: Show me which of the powers enumerated in Article I section 8 of the Constitution covers government-run health care. And if your answer is, "the part about providing for the general welfare", then please explain to me why, if the framers of the Constitution wanted to give Congress carte blanche in providing for the general welfare, they went on to enumerate any powers at all?
No less an expert on the Constitution than James Madison himself has this to say:
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and
are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take
the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers
in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public
treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of
children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the
regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing,
from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute
object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were
the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,
it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature
of the limited Government established by the people of America."
are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take
the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers
in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public
treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of
children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the
regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing,
from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute
object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were
the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,
it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature
of the limited Government established by the people of America."
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