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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Health, life, & liberty are natural rights

       We have a right to health.
We deserve and can afford to
provide universal health care.

Our citizens, children, seniors,
students, service people, leaders,
and the most vulnerable
among us must be healthy,
fit, secure, and productive
if we hope to move forward
as a nation, people, and planet.

Healthy people build strong families, communities,
and nations.  This is not simply a matter of compassion,
morality, and common sense. Our nation's security is at stake.

Sick and unhealthy working people will cripple us at home
and abroad and make it impossible for America to compete in
the global marketplace. We are allowing insurance profiteers
to cripple our businesses so we can no longer compete.
We can't afford to allow private speculators to gamble with
our health and security. We are constitutionally guaranteed life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Too many lives are lost due
to inadequate access to health care. Too many lose their freedom
and are driven into bankruptcy, depression, or early graves due to
profiteering and the machinations of the insurance cartels.
And to many people suffer and are incapable of finding happiness,
because we allow transnational economic cartels to control the
cost of health care, deny services, and marginalize or murder
some of the most vulnerable among us. This must end.

We must demand real change. Americans deserve good
health, rewarding jobs, safe and affordable housing, functioning
schools, and well-maintained infrastructure and services. This is
the very least that we should expect. If Republicans are too
corrupt and Democrats to cowardly to deliver... it is time to
explore other options. Past time. We have too much at stake.

best regards, Tim Flangan    http://www.unionresource.org/
http://www.writingresource.info/healthcare
http://health-careresource.blogspot.com/

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