[Dems2008] Health and healthcare as a civil or human right

• I'm becoming more convinced that health and healthcare are fundamental rights, not options or privileges
• The preamble to our Constitution, while not a particular operative restraint on power or grant of power, does refer to our having adopted the Constitution in part to "promote the general Welfare"
• Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence wrote, and all others signed onto, the notion that "life" and the "pursuit of happiness" are inalienable RIGHTS.
• Seems to me that the general welfare, life, and the general pursuit of happiness cannot be achieved broadly while 47 million Americans lack the protection of healthcare.   Without our health, our welfare, happiness, and lives are jeopardized.
• only conclusion I can come to, therefore, is that the health of Americans under our society's agreement is every bit as much a civil right or human right as equal protection of the laws, freedom of travel, freedom of expression, free exercise, right to counsel, etc., etc.   Indeed, perhaps even more important than some of those.

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