Health Care and Obama

I find it interesting that in a Wall Street Journal (Read: Rich Mans Paper) poll last week 63 percent of Americans want a public option and another 10 percent want a single payer plan. That's 73 percent of people polled are in favor of government run health care. This is a response by people who read the Wall Street Journal. I wonder what the percentages would be by a cross section of America. So my question is why is congress not following what the people they are supposed to be representing want? Could it be that the people of this country no longer have a say so in government because big business has bought their way into which laws get passed. Laws that favor big business instead of favoring the people of this country. Its a shame that this is what our country has become. Look at the collapse of the financial system. We the people bailed out Wall Street and a year later no regulations have passed either house. Wall Street is venturing heavily into risky derivatives again and giving themselves huge bonuses doing it. If Wall Street wants to do that with their own money then let them. The problem is they are betting with our money so they have nothing to lose. If someone gave you 10,000 dollars to place on red or black on a roulette wheel, you would have no problem doing it but would you do that with your own money? So getting back to health care, the preamble of our constitution states "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". I take that as "we" being the government, in the form of our Representatives in D.C. should be promoting the general welfare by passing a national health care bill. I know that maybe a stretch but is owning an Ar-15 assault rifle the same as the second amendment which states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". Think about it, it works both ways. By the way I am pro gun and have an Illinois Firearms Owners Identification Card. This was just a good analogy showing that it works both ways.