The Constitutionalist Party advocates the creation of a voucher system for health care to encourage private involvement in health care as well as cause competition by which quality of service will be increased. Currently, the nation's health care system suffers from a lack of private freedom to provide services to customers. America is not best suited by a government-controlled health care system. Health care would best be provided by competing, private corporations who vie for the business of the consumer. The CP believes that, like with education, the institution of a voucher system that will allow the consumer to choose their health care based upon their individual needs will foster the environment necessary to provide the best service and health care to those that need it.

The Constitutionalist Party advocates the legalization of marijuana for medical use in every state.

The right of a person to do with their body as they wish shall be defended. This means that people should have the right to sell body parts as they would any other piece of property. Also, the CP defends the right of the terminally or hopelessly ill patients to have access to the option of euthanasia. Americans should have the right to living wills and to dictate the manner in which they are to be treated and the method for their remains to be dealt with. No individual should be forced to continue or terminate life-sustaining care, although this does not mean that medical professionals can be forced to assist them in doing either.

The Constitutionalist Party opposes any effort to block educational material concerning AIDS from being made available to the public. The CP also advocates the promotion of state-based initiatives making hypodermic syringes available to the public in order to combat the spread of AIDS via contaminated needles.

The Constitutionalist Party supports continued private research into cloning.

The Constitutionalist Party opposes using tax revenue to pay for the health problems developed by individuals who knew the possible consequences of their actions with regards to their health. Therefore, smokers who develop lung cancer, alcoholics who develop cirrhosis of the liver and so forth should not be able to receive government funding to support their care. A person who knowingly engages in behavior that has detrimental health effects in the future should be held responsible for those effects should they develop, and not the taxpayers.

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