How Health Is a Human Right That's Been Taken From Us

 

 by Mark Hyman, MD


'Revolutions bubble out of injustice. Social, political, economic, spiritual and physical oppression drives people to rise up against violations of basic human rights. Working with Partners in Health this year, after the earthquake in Haiti, I learned from Dr. Paul Farmer that health is among the most neglected of human rights.
The injustices that violate our health as a human right occur not just in impoverished countries like Haiti, but are embedded in 21st century America. And we are exporting disease across the globe, where the overweight -- now 1.7 billion large -- outnumber the malnourished.


I would argue not only that health is a neglected human right, but that it is a right that has been taken from us.'


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Idaho Governor Signs Health Care Freedom Act into Law

'Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare ‘reform’ bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001,” Governor Otter said. “What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won’t be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control".'


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