Same.

£200 of my monthly tax goes towards the NHS. £200. A young medically fit and physically fit 27 year old, and I am forced to pay £200 a month. My knee was injured for 18 months before I saw a consultant who couldn't diagnose.

But yeh, its free for gloria who ****s herself everyday in a nursing home so we can prolong her life for 2 more years.

Free my ****ing ass.

You have to take it in the context of the day. Franklin's famous quote about trading essential liberty for temporary security was actually in reference to the liberty of the Pennsylvania colonial legislature to do what it wanted without the monarch's approval. (See Pennsylvania Assembly's Reply to the Governor, 1755.)

We understand the Constitution to restrain all government because of the 14th Amendment and Incorporation Doctrine. However, most of the resistance to the Constitution and demands for a Bill of Rights came from Founders who specifically wanted thefederalgovernment curtailed to ensure that states could decide how to govern themselves without interference. (Hence, "anti-federalists".)

In plain English, the 10th Amendment says that this is between the states and their people to settle. The police power, the broad power to pass and enforce laws providing for general order and public safety (like regulations requiring you to wear a seatbelt or carry any kind of insurance), was not explicitly granted to the federal government nor barred to the states, so presumptively is devolved to the states to make their own rules as they see fit.

(See Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824, unanimously decided with a Revolutionary War veteran as Chief Justice, which provides an extensive discussion on public health laws being the domain of the states: "They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embraces every thing within the territory of a State, not surrendered to the general government: all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.")

(See also Barron v. Baltimore, 1833, also unanimous from the Marshall Court: "...it is universally understood, it is a part of the history of the day, that the great revolution which established the constitution of the United States, was not effected without immense opposition. ... These amendments demanded security against the apprehended encroachments of the general government—not against those of the local governments. ... These amendments contain no expression indicating an intention to apply them to the state governments. This court cannot so apply them.")

It was only after the ratification of the 14th Amendment, post-Civil War, that the Constitution came to be interpreted as guaranteeing the same individual rights against the states. Some of the Founders would have been irate, but they weren't all of one mind back then either and some actively hated each other. The police power is still what it is, though.