The passage of the Health Care law is a turning point for the United States. Many people will not believe what I am going to say will happen because for some reason some people are going to be blind to see the change occur. This is definitely a turning point because the Supreme Court has expanded the ability of the federal government to dictate our lives. What I mean by this is that they have made the Elastic Clause in the Constitution stretch a bit farther and there is no going back unless the Supreme Court would decrease the stretch in which that will never happen. The Elastic Clause allows the Congress to have more rights to carry out the powers that they were given. Granted those laws have benefited us in certain ways and has definitely hurt us.
The expansion of the Elastic Clause means that the government could do more to inhibit our freedoms. Now of course a majority of Americans do not think about the Constitution or the Founders instead they think of the things they want from the federal government. The federal government should do this for me and this. Conservatives and Liberals both attempt to pass laws to limit what Americans do (I would show examples, but I just woke up, I will edit the blog later). I do not know when Americans are going to wake up, the Founders would not want this wonderful country going the way it is. The Founders intended the states to take care of its people, the federal government should have gave the states more money through a Block Grant to expand health care. Yes, it is still the federal government, but the state government is way better at managing things like health care then the government because there is too much red tape in the federal government. Health Care should be handled by the states because they are smaller and more manageable. That is why "to some extent" it did work in Europe (I am really stretching with that example because the situation in Europe is bad not enough productivity and too many unnecessary benefits (Spain has 14 holiday weekends that start on weekdays and cities have their own holidays, at least one city is celebrating a holiday every week).
All I am saying is that we as Americans have to think about our freedoms and the Constitution. Yes, there are things that I have benefited from the federal government, the federal government has done some really good things. However, we have to be wary of what they are doing and make sure that they adhere to the Constitution.
