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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  My impression of paul is that he'd fling himself in the Potomac before he touched the rag on which that ammendment is printed. At any rate, Our government is already unconstitutional to an extreme degree if it's read anywhere close to the way any of the founding fathers (Jefferson especially, the dudes probably spinning in his grave) Speaking of Jefferson, he'd have burned the Capitol to the ground if anything like socialized medecine came to his desk, he wanted revolution against government, not for bigger government. |
I do not feel that the harsh way England used to enforce their laws, or the way the King and Queen dictatorship they had compares to our government today would consitute the same kind of reaction that Jefferson felt towards that government. In the days of Jefferson they only had a rare few doctors and so medicene was mostly a do it your self thing. Mostly it was women who had a few hand me down tricks they used to deal with a sickness. Many people just died if they got too sick.
Whatever the case such programs were not even thought of back then nor known about. Often it was the preachers who doubled as doctors.
Living off donations based on what the community could afford.
But Jefferson does not live today in our complex society. He might get mad if he could not ride his horse down the freeway. But if he had any brains at all he would make adjustments to how things are now.
Which means he would likewise adjust the Consitution to meet the needs of the changing times. This is not England. In fact, England is no longer the England it once was. We have advanced in science and have arrived at a time in history when many medical problems can be cured or treated to make then less of a problem, we have resources to train as many doctors as needed and being one of the most wealthy countries (still) it is a shame to not allow some people no access to the progress our country as a whole has reached in medical care. Many rich people have donated money to collages to encourage education as a sound investment in the nation's future. The reward of such charity and grovernmental grants to universities is our advanced health care knowledge, which should be used for the good of all people in our nation. Those donations replaced what otherwise would have been taxes for our federal government, monies designed to be usefull to the general public. The schools owe the mainstream population some doctors.