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Old 06-19-2012, 12:59 PM
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Interesting thought, insurance has been with us since antiquity in one form or another. Pete insists that healthcare (insurance) is not mentioned in the Constitution. Checking Madisons notes (which are very well indexed) the subject of insurance was not even mentioned in the debates, Insurance was slow to catch on in America in the early days so its abscence in the debates could be;

a) No body thought about it, or

b) It was taken for granted and not a fit subject for the document.

Come to think about it since the document is about setting up a form of government why in hell would the Constituion discuss it.
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