Rekna

If you want to remove the general welfare clause then we better remove fire departments, police departments, schools, highways, national parks, student loans, research grants, medicare, medicare, social security, welfare, food stamps, income tax, etc.

Let's face it some of these programs have been challenged on constitutional grounds all the way to the supreme court and in every case the supreme court came back and said that the programs are constitutional. There is nothing in the constitution that prevents the government from providing health care and the general welfare clause would seem to allow it (especially given the precedence set by other programs). The unconstitutional argument is a non-starter.