Whether it's paying off debt, building savings or finally getting serious about retirement, declaring your financial independence is about making a bold decision to shape your own future, starting Our country’s most indelible document introduces its citizens to their “certain unalienable Rights,” which most Americans would quickly identify when pressed as being “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Clearly, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” are rights under the Constitution and are the cornerstones on which the Founding Fathers intended this nation to be built on. We have allowed the present health care system to grossly neglect the innate capacity of millions of responsible Americans to assume productive roles in the maintenance of their own Health. To prove this let facts be presented to a candid world. On July 4, 1776, the United States officially declared its independence from the British Empire when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was authored by a “Committee of Five”—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—with Jefferson as the main drafter. But Jefferson himself later admitted Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) WHO called to return to the Declaration of Alma-Ata International conference on primary health care The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 emerged as a major milestone of the twentieth century in the field of public health, and it identified primary health care as the key to the attainment of the goal of Health for All. The following are excerpts from the Declaration: The Conference strongly The Declaration of Independence guarantees the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." What do you think the phrase "pursuit of happiness" means to most people who hear it today? As the Americans did in 1776, led by author Thomas Jefferson and many other brave patriots, I think it is time that we make a Declaration of Independence from this terrible health care system that destroys the health of so many Americans. What follows is my attempt to create a Declaration of Independence from the Health Care System. The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. Unlike the other founding documents, the Declaration of Independence is not legally binding, but it is powerful. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of HappinessOffice for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1942). " Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness " is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which Failure to have full and free healthcare and prescription care for all citizens is not only against the founding concepts laid out in our Declaration of Independence and solidified in the Constitution, it is simply un-American. Sign our Declaration to give older adults and people living with disabilities the right to health independence at home. Learn how we can support health care that meets the needs of people with disabilities and seniors. We’d like to learn more about you and your views on independent living. In a memorable editorial, Frank Davidoff, M.D., Editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine, and Davidoff and Reinecke of the Jefferson Medical College called for a 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to establish universal health care as a right. [2] It was promulgated in a “Dear Health Care Colleague” letter by Ira Hellander, M.D., executive director of Physicians for a National Just as our nation declared its independence 249 years ago, so, too do I want to declare independence from certain negative mental health processes. Here's the setup with the parameters used. A recent on-line discussion asked whether healthcare for Americans is a constitutional right or a privilege. One can debate whether one can extract a legal right to healthcare from the Declaration of Independence depending on whether one sees it is a philosophical or as a legal document. In the Declaration of Independence, it lists the right that Americans and health care did not include but it should be. When in grade school, you learn about the three things that are essential living: food, water, and shelter. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes OpEd: The inalienable rights documented in the Declaration of Independence are under increasing attack from the Trump administration. As for pursuing happiness, it would be reasonable to suggest those deprived of health and liberty are unable to effectively pursue happiness. Thus, the lack of appropriate, available, health coverage and care violates all of the most important rights guaranteed by the Founding Fathers under the US Declaration of Independence.
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