Title: The 28th Amendment: protecting the right to health care and health care insurance - Capital Research Center
Headings: The 28th Amendment: protecting the right to health care and health care insurance
The 28th Amendment: protecting the right to health care and health care insurance
Dr. Steven J. Allen
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Content: However, a new amendment is necessary because the political class has refused to recognize the right to healthcare. Yes, healthcare is a right. But, as Bill Clinton might say, that depends on what the meaning of “right” is. A right is an aspect of life in which the government cannot intervene. For example,
the Freedom of Religion protected by the First Amendment prohibits the federal government from either establishing a religion (i.e., creating a state religion such as the Church of England) or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. [The amendment refers to “Congress” doing this, but remember that, under the Constitution, only Congress can enact federal laws, so the provision amounts to a blanket prohibition on the creation of such laws by the federal government. Yes, I am aware that President Obama, who brags about being a law professor despite the fact that he was never a law professor, claims that the President can create laws without the consent of Congress. I will now give his argument the respect it deserves: BWAHAHAHA.] Just as the right of Freedom of Religion does not obligate the government (taxpayers, that is) to buy you a church, and the right of Freedom of the Press does not obligate the government to buy you a printing press, the right to healthcare does not obligate the government to buy you healthcare.