Is a nationalized health care unconstitutional?
Nationalized health care is not unconstitutional. Its opponents object on the basis of the benefits vs disadvantages of such systems in practice but there is no constitutional problem that has been raised. The advisability, one way or the other, of nationalized health care has nothing to do with its constitutionality. Answers dot com has this to say about the constitutional basis for Medicare (1965):”Congress designed Medicare to promote the general welfare of the United States. The program’s financing mechanisms proceed under the taxing and spending powers, together with the commerce clause. Although some groups have challenged various features of the law, no litigant has challenged the Constitutional basis of the act as a whole.” The same could undoubtedly be said about a more general national health care plan. Medicare has been around for 44 years without being found unconstitutional by any court. In general, public health has always been considered important enough to outweigh othe
