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From: LindyBill3/12/2007 10:40:45 PM
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Couric: Lack of Health Insurance Subverts 'Unalienable Rights' of Declaration
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CBS anchor Katie Couric contended Monday night that the "self-evident" truths in the Declaration of Independence -- "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" -- are denied by the lack of health insurance for many Americans. Introducing a piece on a doctor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City who treats the poor of Harlem, Couric adopted a very liberal definition of basic rights as she added "good health" and asserted on the CBS Evening News:

"More than 46 million Americans have no health insurance. So when it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and good health, all men are not created equal. A doctor here in New York City learned that lesson early in his career. He's spent the last 40 years trying to level the playing field for the poorest of patients."
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