Congress Refuses to Read Bills Before Voting

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

So, following that thought, do you classify Medicare, Medicaid and the medical services of the Veterans Administration as wrong and they should not exist?

They should exist. Veterans Admin is a different animal altogether, completely unrelated to welfare.

And along that line, the government probably should have never gotten involved in overseeing voting procedures in individual states or in saying which kids should go to what schools but because of so many abuses in the past they had to.

Voting is covered in the Constitution. Schools is a states right issue which the Fed gov has no business being involved in.

I'm tired of the argument that a right to health care does not exist in the US Constitution. When the Constitution was ratified the average life expectancy was quite low for the colonists, many children (and birth mothers) died at birth or not long after and doctors were still using leaches and other barbaric practices to treat many ailments.

Doesn't change the fact that in this country there is still no Constitutional right to health care.