4. "Obama Administration Abandons a Piece of Health Care Reform"

"The Obama administration is giving up on a big piece of its health care reform, the  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today. The CLASS program would have created a new long-term health insurance plan that would have allowed workers of any age or health status to buy in, pay premiums, and then collect insurance if they became disabled. But the administration wasn't able to figure out a way to get enough healthy people to sign up to offset the program's costs, Sebelius said in a letter to Congress. Today's announcement isn't terribly surprising given that at the end of last month, much of the program's staff left, including the actuary whose job it would presumably be to calculate how to finance the program."

The sixth line of the preamble to the Constitution is to "Promote the General Welfare." Health care easily fits into general welfare. If the health care reform mentioned above had passed, it would have made it possible for any worker to get health care, despite age or current health. This would have helped general welfare by allowing anybody working to have health care, instead of being denied or charged too much for their budget by health insurance companies.



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