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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (54713)7/17/2004 6:54:28 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 793759
 
Providing health care is not remotely the business of the Federal government let alone an entitlement. The Founders would roll over in their graves.

Bless them. But that's only one of several points I disagree with the founders.

I have in mind T. H. Marshall's wonderful essay on citizenship in which he observes that the 19th and 20th centuries are ones in which the breadth of citizenship and its contents are broadened--more people, more shared rights. Rights to legal representation and rights to acceptable health care seem to me extensions of that argument.

As for the founders, my guess is Sam Adams would have liked it; Jefferson would have been torn, as always; John Adams would have scorned it; Washington would have had no opinion; Hamilton would have worried about it costs; I don't have even a glimpse of what Madison would have thought, perhaps whatever Jefferson did.
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