Is healthcare constitutional?

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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.Enumerated powers Article I, Section 8The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;1. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;2. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;3. To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;4. To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;5. To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;6. To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;7. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;8. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;9. To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;10. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;11. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;12. To provide and maintain a Navy;13. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;14. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;15. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;16. To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And17. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Anyone see healthcare in these powers?10th; The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people, as stated by the 10th. So while the states or to the people have the power the federal government does not.Some have agued the “common Defense and general Welfare” as a clause, but it is a preamble to the Enumerated powers so explained in The Federalist No. 41. Arguing common Defense would be almost impossible to pass “Necessary and Proper”'Equal Protection Clause' of 14th Amendment1. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”Some say “They say wealthy people are able to afford and obtain medical treatment while the less fortunate are left to suffer when they are unable to pay for an operation or treatment.” They have argued that every citizen must be treated equally, and the current health care system is an example of gross inequality that runs contrary to principles of the 14th Amendment. This argument would lead to a crazy slope where you could say everyone should have the exact same everything.14th Amendment section one is a prohibition imposed on the states to not interfere in these liberties. The argument can be made that government imposed equality infers the loss to make a gain thus making such unconstitutional.“MA Article VII. Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men”Note; If you violate the oath of office, fail to uphold the constitution impeachment is warranted. Please contact your reps on this and demand action. Pass this on to others.