Originally Posted by
DrDirt
Bottom line, health care is not the business of the government. Yay for OZ. Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
Me either, fucking 'Roos. But they still have better healthcare.
If you have some insight as to where in the Constitution it says the Government can do what they just passed, please point it out. Nobody who voted for that bill has been able to do that. They merely say that most of the things they do are not granted to them in the Constitution either. Big surprise there. How 'bout we do something about that crap too?
No proble, I direct you to the preamble to the Constutiton of the United States of America:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Now, fines and bullshit like that? No way, I don't think they have the right to do that, but I never insinuated any differently. As for providing some semblance of healthcare? Oh yes, I believe this gives them the authority to do that.
You also make a foolhardy leap of faith in assuming that the government can execute a program properly when they can't even execute terrorists properly.
Again, the system I am talking about IS currently in effect in Australia. And it IS working out better than our system. I'm not making any assumptions. Its working right now, as we type.