Efforts to provide insurance coverage to all Americans sounds admirable. Speaking against the latest liberal efforts to extend such coverage is seen as hateful and uncaring. While no sane person wants another to suffer or die because of the cost of healthcare, we must ask what part of the Constitution gives Congress power to manage, or provide medical care for any Americans outside of the military. This element is being ignored by those who have taken oaths to support the Constitution.

This plan is blatant redistribution of wealth. As evidence of it, look at the various ways being considered to pay for this care. One of the latest is a tax on health policies costing $25,000 per year. This means that those who work hard and pay high premiums to get the best coverage would see their own health care costs to provide for others. “Soak the rich,” is a popular mantra of the left, but this promise must be viewed in light of history. Every government welfare program has started with taxes on the rich, but taxes always grow and the tax base always spreads.

Government provided healthcare, regardless of the method or the plan is an unconstitutional siezure and redistribution of wealth. Such programs subsidize bad decisions and punish productivity, while continuing to divide the nation along class lines.