Is Universal Health Care Constitutional?
There is no Constitutional authorization for health care–or as another noted–the other social programs. Someone who would know a great deal about what the Founders meant is Thomas Jefferson: “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.” In 1828, not that long after the founding, South Carolina Senator William Drayton asked this excellent question: “If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?” (“The Unconstitutional Congress,” hoover.org) Once this nonsense starts, it never stops. And it is nonsense because prior to FDR’s explosive growth in government, Americans were not just ignoring one another or dropping dead with no one caring. The FACT is that Americans have ALWAYS hands down won the title of the world’s most generous people–for foreign and domestic charity, for
