Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Should the Gov't Take Care of Us?

5 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of his YouTube commentary, Dennis Prager argues that the U.S. Constitution assigns only those powers expressly granted to the federal government, leaving all other responsibilities—particularly health care—to the states and individuals. He claims that the notion of the federal government “taking care” of citizens’ health is unconstitutionally foreign to the founders’ vision of a small government. Prager emphasizes personal, family, and community responsibility over reliance on federal provision, asserting that modern expectations of government health care represent a historic departure from the founders’ intent.

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The Constitution says that unless something is specifically to be taken care of by the federal government, everything else is done by the states. This has been violated so early in the 20th century, nobody pays attention to it. Now everyone thinks— I mean, the very notion that the government should take care of your health, that's not constitutional. That is not something that— the government is supposed to protect us. The government has monetary duties. But to take care of us? This was the opposite of what the, the founders of the United States believed in. They believed in a small government. I take care of me, I take care of my family, I take care of my community. And now people believe the government takes care of me, the government takes care of my family, the government takes care of my community.