Today I read in the paper a piece about Senator Kennedy and his "tireless" work for universal health care. The problem with this is the assumption that health care is a right. When Senator Kennedy states that the Citizens of the United States have a right to Health Care provided by the government he is assuming rights and powers not given in the constitution. I have read both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the US and cannot find anywhere any explicit declaration of Federal right to health care. The closest I have found is the unalienable rights as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. All these rights revolve around the idea that the individual is responsible for his activities. He has the right to pursue happiness, not the absolute right to happiness. He has the right to his life and liberty, not to be infringed by the Government. In other words the government cannot dictate to the individual unless and except where specifically stated in the constitution.
The founding fathers believed strongly in individual and states rights. They wanted a government that intruded as little as possible in the daily lives of the citizens. We now have a group of individuals who do not believe this. They have reversed the roles and now believe the government is responsible for all citizens for everything, and the individual citizen has the right that the government will take care of them. Of course, some one will need to make the important decisions and that is the Liberal Progressive who has only the people at heart.
The problem with this belief is that it violates not only the spirit of the law, but the words of the law. We have a judicial system that places itself above congress. We have a congress that believes that the Federal Government has a maternal right to take care of the poor citizens. Of course the successful will need to be taxed to do this.
We have a situation where the current administration wants the 5% most richest to care for the 95% who are "owed" this care.
The bills before congress are placing the force of law to this idea. The Federal government will force the whole US onto the single payer system and not only reduce coverage for all, but specifically almost eliminate access to specialist for the elderly. President Obama has stated that no one is forcing anyone to change their coverage. This is true - but only true during the grace period. After the grace period is over, all will be forced to move to son of Medicare. And we will not like the coverage. We will then have a coverage system just like Canada and UK. And their long care coverage is not good.

This is just one area that the liberals have assumed powers that don't exist in the Government. Read the constitution and look where Education is a power given to the Federals. It isn't. The supreme court issued a ruling that provided the power. Not congress, the supreme court. More on this later.