Sure. Healthcare is important to general welfare of individuals.
So if food, shelter, education, heat, electricity, water supply, air. So I guess the Constitution should also give the Federal Government the power to control all aspects of these and supply us with what we need, right?
Now, who amongst us thinks this is what the founding fathers had in mind?
If healthcare is covered by the constitution so is all the other stuff. If all the other stuff isn’t covered, then neither is healthcare.
Interesting point. So passing nationalized healthcare will have the double effect of not only shackling us under totalitarian health control but will also bust the Constitution permanently, a desirable objective from a Stalinist/Leninist point of view. For if the Constitution can be read as saying, “The federal government has strictly limited powers except for one power that grants it total power over everything,” then it becomes a meaningless document. Only the states can fight for the proper scope of their own power. The battle of the Tenth Amendment must be won or the American experiment may not recover from its “Progressive” disease.