Thomas Jefferson Equated Good Health as a Right Equal to Life and Liberty

Autumn, Pennsylvania Woods

Beauty can help, but it can't cure cancer

We need a strong public option. Thomas Jefferson shows that it's a God-given right

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"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society." Thomas Jefferson

Now that the well off tend to have too much liberty to take from the poorer and less powerful, especially in the realm of Health Care even if that's by holding stock in insurance companies that make 30% off failing to provide care to people who have paid their insurance bill for years, we need to get the pendulum swinging back towards health and it's necessity rather than liberty.

After all, the founding fathers okayed taxes, so they weren't thinking that no constraints would be put upon society at all.

In fact, most were wealthy or at least well off people who felt choked by an overriding monarch who was extracting masses of goods and money from the colonies, rather like the Health Insurance companies do these days. 

Jefferson and his compatriots weren't anarchists as some of the 'teaparty' folk think.

Autumn in Sweden

A country with universal health coverage

Later in the day and from a lower angle, but the colors are about the same where the sun hits them.  But try viewing them secure in the knowledge that you will have the health care you need by paying reasonable and affordable premium now.  It all depends on Congress.

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