Promote the General Welfare.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

"Promote the general welfare".  It was so important to the Founders that they put it right there in the preamble of our great constitution. Tomorrow the Senate is going to decide whether or not basic health care fits the Founders' original vision and meaning of "promote the general welfare".  With our GDP being eaten away by our skyrocketing health costs (about 17% and rising), and more and more Americans losing everything they have because of their untenable health bills, I have no doubt that our founding fathers would absolutely view providing health care to our citizens as a vital and needed component of promoting the general welfare.

Hell, knowing our Founders, I also don't doubt that they would have lined up the traitorous CEOs of every insurance company and bank that got us into this nightmare in the first place and fired a musket ball right between the whites of their eyes.  To, you know, actually promote the general welfare of the people and all.

Flawed though the bill may be, we can wait no longer to do the right thing for our country and our citizenry.  If our Senators possess even 1% of our Founders' backbone and courage they will pass this health care bill.

~Jenn