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Does health care fall under general welfare?
I think not, but many like to think so.
I could understand how infrastructure does, as everyone uses infrastructure. The same case goes for education, which no one can have a monopoly over.
However, health care is a service, and we do not inherently have a right to it. If the government provides health care to one part of the private sector, it is essentially stealing from another part of the private sector as government does not produce anything, it merely reallocates resources.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Even if it does, the constitution says to PROMOTE it, not Provide for it. Common defense is to be Provided for.
Promote means create an atmosphere conducive to, not reach in the pocket and Pay For.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
That is where it would go. Making it a government managed function would reallocate resources from one sector to another but would also make it accessible to all just like education is now. Education is not a government monopoly but is mostly delivered by the government. If left to the market place, education would not be available to all.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
From the Father of the Constitution James Madison:
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
I agree with you about how government just shuffles our money around and steals more if ever it can. I'm not at all sure where the idea of having a right to health care came from. Perhaps it was Medicare.
Anymore though, people seem to think they have a right to a home they can't afford!
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
No,I think health care does not fall under general welfare.
- Praise JebusLv 61 decade ago
It does. But, of course, anyone can twist the words around so that they further your agenda. I also don't agree with your distinction between health care and education, they seem to fall into the same category.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It should. But it looks like that train wreck will be avoided.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It does not.
