Try article 1 section 8 The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general WELFARE of the United States;
Wouldn't keeping American citizens well qualify as part of the general welfare of the United States.
Might also try Amendment 9: The enumeration in the constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people
Just because the constitution didn't mention it doesn't mean you don't have a right to it. Health care might qualify as a right under the 9th amendment.
2007-10-09 15:42:44
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answered by old-bald-one 5
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.The key words "promote the general welfare"
As our Constitution says we all have the same rights and it has taken over 200 years of heartbreak and deaths to make the country into a land safe and disease free and all have the chance to become what he or she would want to be and now since the 60s so many would throw all of it away just to save a dollar or make a dollar.Finding wrong and blame is easy and the taking care of all Americans is easy too,So why not go for the gold and keep America the country millions climb over the fence to get in too.Remember you too will arrive at that part of life's journey when you will need a hospital,and income from social security and a home thats paid for.when you are 65 and setting on a sidewalk begging for money like they did in the 1930's ,Will you remember why you voted it all away and will the people who are selling you the idea that they have a better way, be there by you on that side walk??????
http://www.unity08.com/node/2057
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Coverage/
2007-10-09 15:09:47
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answered by Anonymous
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Does that mean you would be for or against the fire department, if you can't find one that provides for it?
I don't think we would be too domestically tranquil if a pandemic is allowed to run rampant, because so many people are without health care.
Since yo obviously don't have a degree in medicine, or a PhD in biology, and likewise are oblivious to reality, allow me to point out several things to you:
1) disease spread more in more dense populations.
2) when a population is experiencing exponential growth, the population density usually increases
3) antibiotics aren't the miracle they once thought they were
4) whether you want to believe in evolution or not, bacteria do evolve rather quickly to exploit weaknesses in the immune system
5)millions of people without health coverage are sitting ducks for multi-antibiotic resistance diseases.
now take some time to roll that around in your head, for a while, and think about why universal health coverage is so important.
preventing an epidemic, is national defense is it not? isn't it providing for a stable society?
2007-10-09 15:10:31
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answered by Boss H 7
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And now i be conscious of the way Obama got here to be elected. A public option and healthcare mandate do no longer fall in the enumerated powers of Congress, that are recent in Article a million area 8 of the U. S. shape. Nor does the universal public option or healthcare mandate fall decrease than the implied powers of Congress or the "commerce clause". with the aid of fact Congress isn't given the capability to do something exterior of the enumerated or implied powers, the "reform" we've been given is unconstitutional. in case you will no longer be able to comprehend the simplicity of that, then I truthfully experience sorry for you. in case you truthfully think of that the homestead of Representatives qualifies as "the persons" stated interior the 10th substitute, in spite of this, i've got self belief sorry for you. James Madison, who's the "Father of the form", presented the 10th substitute for Congress to ratify and defined it to Congress. He stated "i locate, from finding into the amendments proposed via the State conventions, that numerous are particularly nerve-racking that it'd be declared interior the form, that the powers no longer therein delegated could be reserved to the numerous States. according to threat words which will outline this extra precisely than the whole of the device now does, may well be considered as superfluous. I admit they may well be deemed pointless: yet there may well be no injury in making this sort of statement, if gents will enable that truthfully as stated. i'm confident I comprehend it so, and do for this reason advise it." in short, you have it backwards. it is not what the form says Congress will no longer be able to do, it particularly is what the form says Congess CAN do. Healthcare falls decrease than none of those "can do's". in accordance to the superb court docket, "the Preamble to the U.S. shape "has in no way been recognised with the aid of fact the source of any significant capability conferred on the government of the U. S. or on any of its Departments", so no, "merchandising the final Welfare" can't justify the healthcare "reform". As for the "universal Welfare clause" got here upon interior the enumerated powers of Congress, the superb court docket has held that the "universal Welfare Clause isn't an self sustaining grant of capability, yet a qualification on the taxing capability which risk-free interior it a capability to spend tax sales on concerns of universal activity to the federal government."
2017-01-03 09:03:10
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answered by ? 4
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dstr - just to clarify, it says PROMOTE not PROVIDE.
THe only thing the govt is supposed to provide is national defense. THe Fed govt, in promoting the general welfare, is supposed to keep interference in the economy at a minimum, so that it can function as a capitalist nation.
BossH THe Feds do not supply fire emergency services. That is up to the local govt.
2007-10-09 15:12:10
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answered by Anonymous
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No, it doesn't. But since the left manage to see abortion in the document anyway, and since they manage to see anything they want in the document, they'll say that it is a constitutional right anyway.
2007-10-09 15:12:09
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answered by Anonymous
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No, it does not.
It does not provide for any welfare.
It provides the framework for INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.
2007-10-09 15:13:50
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answered by Anonymous
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No, it doesn't, despite what some people want to read into it.
2007-10-09 16:02:32
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answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7
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No it doesn't.
2007-10-09 15:10:32
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answered by Yeah Right 2
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