Comments on: Letter: Health care legislation does not follow Constitution http://elburnherald.com/8745/2009/12/31/letter-health-care-legislation-does-not-follow-constitution/ Over 100 Years of Dedicated Service Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: RM http://elburnherald.com/8745/2009/12/31/letter-health-care-legislation-does-not-follow-constitution/comment-page-1/#comment-312 RM Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:54:09 +0000 http://elburnherald.com/?p=8745#comment-312 “These founding documents are the STRICTURE by which . . .” I realize this is a typo but the way you use these documents, they would be a stricture. You forget that when these documents were written health care was primitive, women weren’t allowed to vote and slavery was legal. We were also stealing Indian land and destroying their culture. The leap from healthcare regulation or universal access to now all your freedom is gone and you can’t eat steak and potatoes says a lot about the limitations of your thought process. The hysteria about healthcare isn’t solving any problems. It’s just more Republican non-accomplishment.

The cost is a real issue. So is tort reform and lack of insurance coverage for millions of people. Where does the Constitution address these issues? Do these documents say we’re born unequal, some better than others or more deserving? The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are a framework – a beginning for an evolving country. To assume anything else is to be stuck in the past and be forever limited. But then being limited is a comfortable rut for some folks.

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