President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Second Bill Of Rights

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, and housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control” (United Nations Declaration of Human Rights).The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights immediately brought about a change to the world as a whole. Not only did they decide it inhuman to keep health care from citizens, but they set out other standards of

A sensitive topic in the United States today revolves around the issue of healthcare. Is health care a basic human right or is it just a privilege to those who are able to afford it? Health care in the United States is in desperate need of reform. The Affordable Care Act takes that stance that health care is in fact a basic human right and that everyone should have health insurance. When the term “basic human rights” is used, most people think of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This doesn’t necessarily mean that people should be forced to sustain others’ lives, or that they have the responsibility to make others happy because they have a “right” to pursue happiness. You are born with these basics rights that no

Both the right to petition and assemble manifested themselves well before the Bill of Rights existed; they date all the way back to the Magna Carta, which was formulated in 1215. The Framers of the Constitution, using this historical document as well as a myriad of others as a basis, added a Bill of Rights to the end of the Constitution in 1789. Today, people exercise the many rights included in the Bill of Rights to express their opinion on an issue, but the extent to which these rights are practiced is quite controversial. Although some people believe that the right to petition and assemble should be unlimited, leaving these without restriction could be dangerous for the American people as it blurs the line between peace and violence, could

One of the most demonized terms in American political discourse is 'socialism.' When various healthcare reform proposals are being discussed, it is common to condemn them as 'socialized medicine' if they call for greater government intervention to enable universal coverage of all Americans. However, socialized medicine refers to a very specific system of providing healthcare and virtually no American politician has dared to propose what would constitute a truly 'socialized' system of medicine. Additionally, many nations exist which provide universal coverage for all citizens without deploying a single-payer system. It is important to understand truly what socialized medicine 'is' and what it is not, as well as its benefits and detriments, when debating healthcare policy in America.

In Franklin Roosevelt’s message to the Congress, he brought up many ideas to fix the issues going on in the world. He founded the four human freedoms. The first is “of speech and expression for everywhere in the world. Second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way. Next is Freedom from want. It will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for

Healthcare is the improvement of physical and mental health through the assistance of medical services. The right to health care is an internationally recognized human right. In 1948, 48 nations, including the United States, signed the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “In this document it is stated that everyone should have the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of oneself and one’s family, including medical care” (Right to Health Care ProCon.org). People have the right to receive the health care they deserve regardless of the costs. It is a basic human right to be provided with the medical care and assistance needed to live.

health care services are limited, it is necessary that the available services are distributed fairly and in the most equitable way possible. In an effort to comply with the principle of justice, individuals who have unfair advantages over others must give up their privileges for the betterment of all (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2008, p.73). The discriminatory practice of denying health care coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions while others had insurance was in direct violation of this ethical principle. Although health care reform is often fueled by logical socio-economic reasons and the laws are rationalized within the context of the political sphere, compassion for others is at the base of these changes. Compassion is the ability

Since the creation of the United States, the meaning of freedom has changed to meet changing attitudes. Throughout our nation’s history, there have been significant periods of racial, economic and civil rights inequalities. There are different meanings for freedoms that have been established throughout the historical period of the United States. During this modern era, the US had certain periods of time that lived up to the ideals of freedom such as the Gilded Age. In opposition, the US has also had periods of time where our ideals of freedom failed to meet the requirements of our nation, a prime example being the late 1940s when the US entered the Cold War and led to the anti-communism period of McCarthyism which ultimately restricted

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s actions during World War II also restricted constitutional liberties. The U.S. entered World War II in 1941 after the Japanese bombed the naval base at Pearl Harbor. Mass hysteria broke out about Japanese spies and future attacks. Because of this, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which forced Japanese residents living on the west coast into internment camps. Executive Order 9066 violated many of the Constitutional Amendments: freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, right to trial, right to equal protection under the law, etc. The government forced innocent people into imprisonment camps and denied them basic rights given to them in the Constitution. Similarly,

Poverty has usually been the cause of illness and it constructs as a barrier for vulnerable groups ' access to care and pretentious healthcare. Often times people with less favorable financial condition are not able to afford neither private health insurance nor government healthcare. In this paper, I will argue that free/affordable healthcare is ethically obligatory because Medicare is a fundamental right, all lives are equal and healthcare is not a commodity.

One can argue that a right to free healthcare could increase the United States debt and deficit; while on the other hand I postulate that a right to free healthcare would stop medical bankruptcies and improve public health globally.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” is a phrase nearly every American knows as being the three unalienable rights that cannot be revoked by the government. These self-evident truths first appeared in the Declaration of Independence, a document written to rid the United States from its torrid oppressors. Liberty, however, is the most important of the three, seeing as if American did not have it, residents would simply be slaves to their government and could not be truly free-thinking citizens.

The historical roots of the American Bill of Rights come from two concepts: liberty and republicanism. Both liberty and republicanism are intertwined. At their roots, they are regularized constructs designed to achieve a common objection: a check upon unbridled and arbitrary government power. Arbitrary arrests and imprisonment were feared by the eighteenth century Englishmen as the antithesis of liberty. (Garcia pg. 1)

Absolutely, the issues relating healthcare affordability and access remains the most pressing concerns. Nonetheless, this has been the case for the most part of 20th century. Perhaps a fresh look at the system to which emphasizes on the special needs of a complex society can bring the most positive change. In systematic terms, the problem with the current structure is that prevention takes time, whereas, political progressions are short-range (McLaughlin & McLaughlin, 2008). Therefore, incentivizing prevention under the current system is almost impossible for the reason that when individuals engage in preventive programs, the continuation of accrued benefits will most likely be compromised or written out in its entirety. Such dilemma is the main concern; hence, cultivating a more consistent preventive care system is the most pressing need (Wyrwich et al., 2012).

The first topic of the SOCHUM committee is health care as a basic human right. All people should have basic medical care available to them; however, 400 million people around the world do not have access to vital health services. Around the world, many have to pay out of pocket for medical care which pushes many into extreme poverty.2 The SOCHUM committee advocates for human rights issues that impact all people. Thus, countries should provide people access to health care. Universal health coverage is an issue in regards to international human rights law. The international human rights law is a body of laws that promote human rights in the international system. This treaty expects states to protect and provide basic human rights to their people.