Like so many, you actually DON’T know what the Preamble to the Constitution says or means. It DOES NOT say “to provide for the general welfare.” It was:

“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.”

This means defend the nation, and set up a just and orderly system of government, and get the hell out of the way. NOWHERE does it say the governments role is to take care of the citizenry from cradle to grave. Indeed the shape and scope of modern U.S. regulation of the lives of ordinary Americans would shock the founders to their very core.

ALL treatment will be charged to the patient.

Two countries stand out for having single-payer healthcare systems as sought by Obama and Hillary: Japan and the UK.

Go to Japan, experience the overcrowded, unionized public hospitals, with patients waiting for hours to see the great doctor for 3 minutes, then wait for another hour to make the co-payment in cash.

Japanese doctors frankly acknowledge that Japan is years behind on sophisticated treatment techniques because the socialist health culture prizes mediocrity and blind centralization and discourages innovation.

Note that when billionaires or movie stars in Asia get sick, they NEVER get treatment in Japan.

Or go to England, visit one of the filthy, run-down National Health Service hospitals, be maltreated by surly, untrained staff, join a two year waiting list for replacement of an excruciatingly painful hip joint. If you have cancer and choose to pay for a “non-approved” cancer drug to save your life, ALL treatment will be paid for.

To be sure, the UK still has a small but lucrative private sector treating billionaires, Arab oil sheiks and families of Labour politicians, similar to the systems for providing WESTERN standards of care for party oligarchs in the old communist countries.

Count on Obama and Hillary quietly setting up an elite care system for themselves and their Beltway buddies when the rest of us have been herded into union-hell DMV-care.

I also observed numerous tatoos of skulls and crossbones, apparently quite in vogue, engraved upon large swaths of said jiggly flesh. It all spoke ironically and prophetically as well of the future health of these denizens of this northern East Coast blue state, where the shrill clamor for socialized medicine is part of the constant political background noise. It seems the bottomless appetite in America for having your cake and eating it too, in vast quantities besides, is what is driving the call for welfare for all.

Really, is that true?