How are we going to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness without healthcare? I think healthcare should be a constitutional right,” said 1199C Delegate Mustafa Muhammad, drawing thunderous applause from the audience at the town hall meeting during the NUHHCE Triennial Convention, held from November 10 through November 12, 2009 in Memphis.
The new President of the United States of American faces an enormous and difficult job. So do we!
We arrive at this juncture with more than 10 million people unemployed.Three-quarters of a million people lost their jobs just this year and this is not the end of job losses. We are in the greatest financial crisis since The Great Depression. We face the largest number of home foreclosures ever in our history – more than 100,000. Our healthcare delivery system is in shambles. We are still engaged in two wars – costly in lives and resources; more than 4000Americans have been killed and some $10 billion a month is spent in Iraq alone. That is a war that must end..