Dogzilla
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Originally Posted by Derwood
Where in the Constitution does it say that the Government CAN'T implement Universal Health Care?
I'm going to agree with The_Dundean on this, that the 10th amendment prohibits it. The Constitution does grant the federal government the right to impose taxes, but does not grant the government the right to force people to pay arbitrary fees. Obama has gone to great lengths to claim his mandatory health care payments are not a tax, so Obama loses.
If I remember right, this is the basis for several law suits that the Supreme Court will get to choose from when deciding this.
So now it's your turn. Exactly where does the Constitution prohibit repealing or canceling an entitlement program?
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I think I benefit from having generally healthy neighbors, it's like sharing cost for public schools, I benefit from living in a community of educated people.
would you prefer to live with uneducated sick people ? I remember you saying (I think) you had lived in a sketchy neighborhood at one time, well, it'd be nice I think if lower income neighborhoods didn't need to mean lack of education, violence, alcoholism drug use and trafficking broken homes, etc. don't you think ? shouldn't people be able to make it ok on lower income levels ?
it's like paying community 'rent'
people are also obliged to buy auto insurance, to protect the other guy at least, well I'd like to be protected from catching cold or flue from people who can't afford to stay home when they are sick...or how about polio or any other heinous sickness that could go epidemic, with that in mind, it becomes a matter of national security.
health care has always been about an economy of scale, so I just don't see why single payer wouldn't be a good thing ? I mean there's still private schools for those that can afford and prefer that. and our state colleges paid for partly by tax payers do tons of pie in the sky research so it's not like public (non profit) medicine has to be all bottom line and basic. I mean geez, this America (that's a good thing right ?) we do have a sense of pride and competition in the world, or we used to.