Should the U.S. Government Require All Americans to Have Health Insurance?
The U.S government should not require its citizens to have health insurance. It Infringes on Individual rights and freedom According to the U.S Declaration of Independence, “All men are endowed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Liberty, an individual’s right to have control over their own actions. The word that is also printed on the back every U.S coin. “Give me Liberty or give me death!” The idea that our founding fathers fought for and built our country on. To require or demand something to someone who was guaranteed freedom is unconstitutional, and infringes on the rights of the citizens of America. Wall Street Journal Writers David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey agree in their article “Mandatory Insurance is Unconstitutional” by stating “Such a mandate, however, would expand the federal government’s authority over individual Americans to an unprecedented degree. It is also profoundly unconstitutional.” The U.S government does not in fact have the right to take away rights established by our fore fathers. Or as the Federal Judge Henry E. Hudson a little less formally stated “It’s like giving Congress the ability to force Americans to buy and automobile, to join a gym, or to eat asparagus.’’ Instead of making it a federal mandate, it should be under the state’s control according to NPR, Massachusetts is the first state to require health insurance which has been effective since June 1, 2007. This is a better route to take, simply because this gives the power to the states and what the people of that state decide to do, rather than to have the government decide for the whole nation. This will essentially keep the individual rights of the people, for the people. Trusting in God does not exempt us from hardship, struggle, and sickness. In fact, we should not be surprised by hardship (1 Peter 4:12). Having faith is not the ability to control the outcome of our lives, but rather the attitude to submit to whatever God brings our
Cited: Holy Bible, The Word of God: Alive and Active with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha, Today 's English Version, American Bible Society, 1979. Print