America's health insurance "system" is the shame of the industrialized world. And the lies the Repuglicans told to shoot down this bill really should make their God very pissed at them (e.g. "Stephen Hawking would be dead if he had been under NH.").

No, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Federal Government has to supply health care. But there are a lot of things not in the constitution that we still do. It's not meant to be legislation, only to define the roles of the branches and protect our meagre freedoms (which are under systematic attack by a succession of Repuglican administrations but that's a tale for another day).

That there should be people in this country who die from treatable and preventable illness is an outrage. "Why should I pay for your health care?" Because it's the right thing to do. I don't just think so. The entirety of the civilized world thinks so.