Social work has begun to enter coalitions with other professional and advocacy groups that ground their demands for the creation of a universal health care system in human rights principles. In alliance with the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Nurses Association, the American Hospital Association, the American Geriatrics Society, and numerous other professional societies, NASW subscribes to health care reforms that are inclusive of all citizens. By joining Divided We Fail, a coalition with sufficient breadth to include the Service Employees International Union, the American Association of Retired Persons, and the Business Roundtable, professional social work has affirmed its commitment to universality in insurance coverage.Strength for the position of health care as a human right is found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a consensual agreement signed in 1948 by the United States and 50 other nations, which asserts a right for each person to.