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I'm not asking you to read the whole thing - it's a bit complicated and has some big words in it. Damn Founding Fathers and their intellectual elitism and all. I think some of them even went to Harvard.
But let's start today with just the first sentence of the preamble. Just one sentence. You can take the time out of your day to do that right? I'm sure you've heard the first three words before: "We The People". So you should have some familiarity with it, which should help you get all the way through that sentence. Heck, you might have even heard the ensuing clause about a more perfect union. That gets you through the first 15-20 words right there.
Well, just go a little further. Words 25-28, I'm talking about. "Promote the general welfare". This is less than 30 words into the document on which our entire nation was founded, way, way before you get to the amendments about the right to bear arms (written at a time when arms were muskets and not assault weapons that you claim you need to shoot deer) or the part that says you don't have to keep troops in your house if you don't want to (as Dave Barry once wrote, "you troops will just have to sleep on the porch" is a perfectly constitutional thing for you to say).
So right there in the VERY FIRST SENTENCE is the idea that the country should promote the general well-being of its citizens. I would think that health would fall under that category, by just about any definition. Ohmigod - that sounds like socialism! Let's shred that thing! (After Nic Cage copies the treasure map on the back, of course).
Although before you panic if you want to keep reading and see if you can come to the part about the right of insurance companies to make large profits off the sick, we'll just wait here. Since that's basically, when you get right down to it, what you are fighting for. Because even if you think you are fighting to keep the health care you currently have, all it takes is one set of layoffs at your company, or one bean-counter at your insurance company who finds a loophole in your policy, and it's gone. Unless you are on Medicare and protesting anyway, in which case I doubt you have the brainpower to operate a computer and even read this post.
If I have you thinking and you are in the mood to keep reading and have your Bible with you, there's those few lines from Matthew that you may find interesting. I don't think, on your judgment day, that the higher-ups are really going to consider insurance company executives "the least of us". I'm just saying. You can try to find something in there that says the sick shouldn't be tended to if they are poor or happen to be between jobs, but even though I am far from a Bible expert, I don't think you're going to find it. From what I gather, sticking up for Cigna doesn't seem to be the path through the pearly gates.
I have a good benefits package and no immediate threat of layoffs, so I'm not on this side for selfish reasons. I just can't believe that so many people are fighting against the idea that they could have the peace of mind to know they're taken care of if they are sick - no matter what. Some may say that peace of mind would do wonders for the general welfare.
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