Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
If we had gone with a gov't single payer healthcare option back in the 40s or 50s, like most every other first world country, we would probably not think anything of it now, anymore then we do fire departments and police departments. We would just accept it as normal.
By that reasoning I suppose that if in 1787 the founders had simply submitted for ratification a constitution which clearly laid out their plan to allow the federal government to benevolently rule it's subjects, and had that constitution then received approval from the several states, we'd all be happier, healthier and wiser.