Health care reform should have taken the form of a constitutional amendment

[TwixVoy]

Does anyone else feel that health care reform should have taken the form of a constitutional amendment? (Let's just assume it COULD pass for a minute)

So simple amendment to the constituation.... something like "All people in the United States shall have the right to health care. This shall be done through act of congress." Something along those lines and let the ball roll from that point?

[cali]

1. that's fantasy politics- the point of which always eludes me.

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. What part of feeling good do you not understand?

Politics as a form of self expression.

The institutional roadblocks in the Senate pale by comparison to the obstacles in the path of a constitutional amendment.

[DailyGrind51]

3. Preventing discrimination on the basis of health could have been accomplished through amendment

of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, just like the American with Disabilities Act was amended and signed into law to include the chronically ill.

[MineralMan]

4. Good idea. The odd against it, though, are 10,000 to 1.

So, it's a waste of time to wish for it, it seems to me.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. The Preamble says "Promote the General Welfare"

Surprisingly, they left out the all-important "of corporations".