Jack wrote:
On Sep 4, 11:13 am, thunder wrote:
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:05:22 +0000, Steve wrote:
Congress has no authority to grant "health care."
The hell it doesn't. It's in the Preamble, right after "provide for the
common defence". It's "promote the general Welfare".

While you guys would love to spin it that way, you damn well know the
founding fathers didn't intend that statement to mean that the gov is
supposed to provide health care or heath insurance to its people.
Health insurance didn't even exist in the US when this was written.

You're fooling no one. You're either being disingenuous, or you're a
socialist idiot.


"...promote the general welfare..." means Congress may initiate and pass
legislation that is in the general best interests of the nation.

That would include Social Security, Medicare, a public health plan, et
cetera.