Constitution not a hurdle in reform

It is amazing what people will do to the Constitution. Like the Bible, they often read into it a lot of things to further their own agendas.

I believe there was once an attempt to get laws against marijuana overturned on "freedom of religion" grounds.

The current assertion, by opponents of health care reform, is that it is prohibited by the Constitution.

Obviously they have not read it: There is no prohibition of the government providing health care. If the founding fathers were considering such a clause, they never included it in the final product. Furthermore, Medicare has been in effect for over 40 years. It has always been Constitutional.

To the best of my knowledge, the conservative judicial agenda has been to overturn Roe vs. Wade, removing abortion as a right, and to allow prayer in public schools, but not to overturn Medicare on Constitutional grounds.

If universal medical coverage, or close to it, is ever enacted, it appears that a Constitutional challenge will take place. It will be dismissed quickly, as the challengers do not have a leg, artificial or prosthetic, to stand on.

Peter VandeMotter

Mundelein