Quote:
|
Nationalized (socialistic) health care, is a direct refuting of individual rights. The original ten amendments to the constitution were all aimed at insuring retention of individual's and states' rights.
|
I fail to see how. I'd agree that it's certainly outside of the powers of the federal government as given in the Constitution, but I fail to see which
individual right is infringed there. Obviously the rights enumerated in the Constitution aren't exhaustive (it explicitly says so) but I'm not really seeing any right to "lower taxes" nor a right to a "choice" of health care/insurance on the free market.
While I'm more than willing to entertain arguments as to the
benefits of nationalized health care (I'm not particularly in favor of it, to be honest) I don't see where civil rights come into play. I'm seeing no fundamental difference between the government taking control of health care and funding it through taxes rather than leaving it to private providers and, I don't know, the government doing the same for police services or schools.
Of course, the latter are (largely) run at levels below the federal. But again, that's a separation of powers issue not an individual rights issue.