Health-care

Dear Citizens:
Yesterday I posted this on face-book during a spirited debate.
Anyone who is a citizen deserves health-care from the government.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
I like that part about "promoting the general welfare"
I have asked the ones who responded to allow me to post their responses and I am interested in your ideas.  I myself like the single payer option.
Be well citizens
A Journeyman Citizen


a few responses 
from Kevin
"Promoting" and "providing" doesn't mean government provided health care insurance is a right or entitlement. Nor does the government have the power to require individual citizens or privately owned small businesses to purchase health care insurance.
from Jay (a concerned Catholic)

It seems to me if you provide it, you have to run it. To run it you should have a track record of running organizations with a positive cash flow or run it as a non-profit. Our gov't is already 2 trillion dollars further into the hole the previous Congress left us in. Shouldnt we try to get out of the hole first, instead of diving in deeper?
The insurance companies are making a mint. Healthcare companies charge accordingly to keep up. But they charge a significantly different price if you do not have insurance. That is where it is broken. Gov't could assist there possibly rather than creating a costly alternative that looks good up front but costs future generations trillions. And quit trying to add so many 'extras', like paying for abortions and stem cell research and calling it 'health care'.

Nikki
I would love to quit my two jobs, that I have CHOSEN to work (like all the other decisions in my life), stay home and sit on my a......and let the government take care of me. Do you think the food bank has delivery??? Sorry. don't have time to finish debating this, have one of my jobs to get to!