The Constitution

Preamble: 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 for the United States of America.

Injustice, unfairness of laws and in trade, was of great concern to the people of 1787. People looked forward to a nation with a level playing field, where courts were established with uniformity and where trade within and outside the borders of the country would be fair and unmolested.

Today, we enjoy a system of justice that is one of the fairest in the world. It has not always been so — only through great struggle can we now say that every citizen has the opportunity for a fair trial and for equal treatment, and even today there still exists discrimination. But we still strive for the justice that the Framers wrote about.

Health Care

In 2008, Medicare, denied medical claims at nearly double the average for private insurers: Medicare denied 6.85% of claims. The highest private insurance denier was Aetna @ 6.8%, followed by Anthem Blue Cross @ 3.44, with an average denial rate of medical claims by private insurers of 3.88%.

In 2009, the AMA reports that Medicare denied only 4% of claims—a big improvement, with denials by all other private insurers, to average only 2.79%.

• Aetna - Denied 1.81% of all claims
• Anthem BCBS - Denied 4.34% of all claims
• Cigna - Denied 2.56% of all claims
• Coventry - Denied 3.99% of all claims
• Humana - Denied 2.03% of all claims
• UHC - Denied 2.02% of all claims
• Medicare - Denied 4.00% of all claims

For more information, visit the American Medial Association Website.