Have people become so ignorant of the Constitution they fail to realize the more important issue is that Federal health care is unconstitutional since it is not expressly written as a power granted to Congress in Article 1 Section 8 or have we become so apathetic to the Constitution that individual provisions in HR3200 are more important? What am I missing?
Sadly, I would say that far too many have become ignorant and apathetic.
Surely both general constitutional issues and specific health-care provisions are relevant?
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; [...]"
The “Principle of Subsidiarity” is founded in both Church theory as well as the the U.S. Constitution:
“Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level. The concept is applicable in the fields of government, political science, cybernetics, management, military (Mission Command) and, metaphorically, in the distribution of software module responsibilities in object-oriented programming (according to the Information expert design guideline). Subsidiarity is, ideally or in principle, one of the features of federalism.
The word subsidiarity is derived from the Latin word subsidiarius and has its origins in Catholic social teaching. The concept or principle is found in several constitutions around the world (see for example the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution).”
(from wikipedia)