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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (23876)	6/28/2012 8:06:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

Law is a human construct, but its a construct with some real existence and meaning. Deciding it all means something else on a whim, or because its popular (this law isn't), or because its the cherished goal of the president and a faction in congress, damages the important social construct of the rule of law. If you're looking for perfection you won't find it in the Constitution or any human construct. Of course the constitution isn't perfect. But it is the law. Arbitrary rule of whatever can get a transitory majority leaves us far less protected against oppression. Incremental change, evolution. It's what we do as a species. And its allowed for even if the Supreme Court actually decides to pay attention to and enforce the constitution. There is the amendment process, and also there are all types of ways laws can create new structures and programs and other changes that don't run afoul of the constitution. And of course there is all the non-governmental changes that are possible. Including the many the PPACA gets in the way of. 3000 pages of law (with the real law being much more complex than that because the law includes references to other laws, incorporating or modifying them in ways that can add much more complexity per page, and also because the law sets us up for a huge new round of regulation, and regulatory interpretation, count all that up and its probably in effect more like a 300,000 page law), isn't a way to have incremental change and evolution, its a way to stamp down on it. If you want incremental change and evolution, you don't throw in a huge series of complex mandates and limitations on people.