Health Care: Do we have a leg to stand on?
Allow me to play devils advocate for a bit:
Much of the opposition to Obamacare comes from the folks who want to protect America from socialized medicine. Unfortunately, they appear to be fighting a battle that was lost decades ago.
America has socialized medicine. Medicare and Medicaid are socialized medicine, plain and simple. We have, in our generosity (or foolishness, whichever you prefer), created a system where the elderly, the extremely poor, an the disabled receive free or heavily subsidized medical care, while the rest of us pay full price.
We've created, in essence, a separate class of citizen with special "rights" to go along with it. If you are over the age of 65, or otherwise meet the requirements, you have the "right" to low cost medical treatment, subsidized by the same taxpayers who are being crippled by insurance costs.
I cannot find, nor have I heard, any interpretation of the Constitution which would allow such a thing.
Medicare ain't going away. My question is: Does our Constitution allow for the system we have in place now?
If not, what are the alternatives?
Much of the opposition to Obamacare comes from the folks who want to protect America from socialized medicine. Unfortunately, they appear to be fighting a battle that was lost decades ago.
America has socialized medicine. Medicare and Medicaid are socialized medicine, plain and simple. We have, in our generosity (or foolishness, whichever you prefer), created a system where the elderly, the extremely poor, an the disabled receive free or heavily subsidized medical care, while the rest of us pay full price.
We've created, in essence, a separate class of citizen with special "rights" to go along with it. If you are over the age of 65, or otherwise meet the requirements, you have the "right" to low cost medical treatment, subsidized by the same taxpayers who are being crippled by insurance costs.
I cannot find, nor have I heard, any interpretation of the Constitution which would allow such a thing.
Medicare ain't going away. My question is: Does our Constitution allow for the system we have in place now?
If not, what are the alternatives?
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No, NO, and "DARN" NO! Thats my opinion, now a comment from someone more knowledgeable on the subject........
James Madison is the acknowledged father of the constitution. In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia. James Madison wrote disapprovingly, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." Today, at least two-thirds of a $2.5 trillion federal budget is spent on the "objects of benevolence." That includes Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, aid to higher education, farm and business subsidies, welfare, ad nauseam.
The above is from a Walter Williams article.......0
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