Health care reform and the Constitution

A number of folks have written me and asked "Where in the Constitution does it say the government should provide health care for its citizens." I don't think you have to look any further than the preamble, the reason the constitution exists:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution ..."

There you have it.