HEY anybody who is a constitutional scholar, I need help. My sister says that health care almost got put into the constitution. This sounds bizarre to me. If anybody can tell me to what she is referring, I will be quite grateful. I have never heard of such a thing! She must have gotten it from the left wing radio programs she listens to, so I guess this is what they are tellling them.
If she’s a lib that ought to tell you something right there.
I’m not as studied up on all areas of history as I would like to, but it is my understanding that for most of American history healthcare was relatively affordable. You paid the doctor out of pocket (in some way) and he did something that would hopefully make you better. I don’t think that would be in the constitution.
She's probably talking about FDR's proposed Second Bill of Rights. He wanted a list of obligations the federal government would have toward American citizens. Among them was a right to "good health."
http://worldpolicy.org/projects/globalrights/econrights/fdr-econbill.html
BTW, regarding the 25th Amendment, may Section 3 or 4 soon be invoked against the Liberal Messiah; we know He's nuts.
Unless she has some specifics, I’d have to say really mean things about her. What proposal is she talking about, what is meant by “almost”, why does she listen to NPR which has all the credibility of Dan Rather, etc.
I only thing I can think of is that the MSM and the lefty loons will repeat this lie over and over again that the brain numbed sheeple will believe it’s true and vote on it.