PLYMCO_PILGRIM
Gold Member
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.
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt
It says PROMOTE not PROVIDE or INSURE or ESTABLISH or SECURE....Promote .
So under the very passage you qoute it can be argued that the govt can lobby for, advance in importance the issue of, or help bring into being health insurance but you can't claim, by that passage, that the govt is required to provide health care.