Is health care a fundamental right?
The House Interim Committee on Health Care held a lively public hearing and work session yesterday on a proposed Constitutional Amendment which would declare access to health care to be a “fundamental right.” If approved by the February special legislative session, it would be voted on by Oregonians in November.The key language of Legislative Concept 91 reads:
The people of Oregon find that health care is an essential safeguard to human life and dignity and that access to health care is a fundamental right. In order to implement that right, the Legislative Assembly shall establish by law a plan for a system designed to provide every legal resident of the state access to effective and affordable health care on a regular basis.
Defending our cars, our freedom
Planning to Mock FreedomBy Aaron Crowley,
Of all the symbols of independence in America, the automobile stands out. Nothing else gives a man the ability to take any road or highway to wherever he wants to go, whenever he so desires.
The Oregonian apparently has a problem with this in a recent article.
In a column about Randy O’toole’s recent seminar on planning, the reporter choses to mock Houston, TX residents as having a “love affair with the automobile.”
