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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (5007)	2/27/2008 3:36:49 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<OK, so I gather you consider everyone inherently "deserving" of health care. So I might understand your usage, could you list some other things of which we are all inherently deserving. Surely health care is not the only one. It's often said that we are all deserving of respect and privacy. What are some others?>>> I wouldn't go as far as FDR did in his SOU address in 1944, but I think health care and education are rights that has to be guaranteed for all citizens in the United States. That has already been achieved in all the advanced, well educated, and prosperous countries on earth. The United States has to be next, well in advance of North Korea, China, India, and the impoverished countries of Africa. Don't you agree? From Wikipedia, The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by federal judges. Roosevelt's stated justification was that the "political rights" granted by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee: A job with a living wage Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies Homeownership Medical care Education Recreation Roosevelt stated that having these rights would guarantee American security, and that America's place in the world depended upon how far these and similar rights had been carried into practice.