Congressmen propose health care constitutional amendment (again)

A constitutional amendment to guarantee “health care of equal high quality” to all Americans has been proposed in the House of Representatives (again):

U.S. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, on Thursday introduced a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to guarantee health care as a right for every American.

The resolution would amend
the Constitution to read “all persons shall enjoy the right to health care of equal high quality.”

H.J. Resolution 30 is co-sponsored by 27 other House Democrats, including Rep. Jesse Jackson
Jr., D-Ill. Jackson is also proposing a constitutional amendment on voter rights.

Other versions of the health care amendment were introduced in four previous sessions of Congress.

“We face a health care crisis where equal opportunity and basic fairness in our nation are at stake,” Stark said in a news release. “A Constitutional guarantee of health care for all will
force Congress to take action to ensure that health coverage is there for all Americans.”

Health care expenses in this country are over $1 trillion per year. Since this bill does nothing to control rising costs, would appear on the face of it to ban side-by-side public and private health care systems (as exist in some countries), and doesn’t give any hints as to where they plan to come up with the jack to pay for it, this is clearly political posturing and rampant lunacy.

I’m all for reform in the health care system but this isn’t it and IMO such idiocy isn’t at all helpful. You can pass a law that all bread is going to be changed into chocolate cake but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen. Grow up, Congressman Stark.

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