Look around and you see and hear so many voices that are outraged over “passage” of this House bill.
Why?
Because the nature of human society now at its lowest level is rearing its ugly head in opposition, but in a demeaning manner, with sneers, and snickers, and prejudices.
What have we done?
In the manner of our dissent, America has shown the world our true nature. We are not the intellectual society we had believed we were. In fact we aren’t even adults.
The Bill has Obvious Problems
I would be the first to agree that this bill isn’t the greatest, it is lopsidedly in favor or the insurance companies, and parts are definitely unconstitutional, but as of now 38 Attorneys General appear ready to challenge the Bill and their likelihood of prevailing in litigation seems all but given.
I am still at a loss as to why America appears to oppose health care!
Health Care, like the right to earn a livelihood, to marry, and to have and raise children, these are basic Human Rights! Yet we accept most but not all!
And what is really interesting, those who need health care are the very ones who have seemingly been brainwashed by the Republican propaganda machine to oppose it.
Yes that part of the bill requiring all Americans to carry insurance or face a fine is unconstitutional, as the AG’s lawsuit properly addresses.
Congress’s authority stems from the interstate commerce clause, and unless somewhere else in the constitution or its Amendments there is authority given or granted Congress, it is powerless to act.
A prime example is Congress ability to tax, before the passage of the 16Th Amendment, Congress was required to tax the states not to directly tax the people
The Sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution allows Congress now to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.
The Supreme Court to Rule on this Legislation
No doubt if we have a legitimate Supreme Court, (which question haunts us), that part will be struck from the bill.
Unfortunately, however our Supreme Court is made up of Lawyers, who as a group, their honesty and integrity have been called into question on more than one occasion. And their sphere of knowledge is just as inventive as their imagination. However assuming even a marginal intelligence pervades this august body, logic may well prevail.
Every civilized nation provides this basic human right to its citizens, why is it that we have sought this right for ourselves for over 100 years, and even today with a bill partially passed, and though not the best it could be, we are antagonists of ourselves.
Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human Rights. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege!
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, proclaimed that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care.”
Although this statement of high principle was adopted at the urging of the “ United States ”, and although it reflects the truths of our nation’s founding documents, our government has achieved neither formal recognition nor practical realization of these rights!
Mass homelessness and the escalating health care crisis in the US are compelling evidence of our disregard for human rights. Sadly, our country is but one of many nations where grave offenses against the dignity of human beings are commonplace, and global enforcement of human rights remains a distant goal
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Certainly health care falls into this category.
Proponents of the concept usually assert that all human being are endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being part of human society.
Even our Declaration of Independence proclaims this truth. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness”
219 years ago, Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified. Unalienable rights are not privileges. Depending on your ideology, rights are either granted to us by our Creator, or by nature, which to most people is one and the same. Privileges are granted by a society, or government entity, and are not the same as rights.
By the unalienable or "absolute rights" of individuals is meant those which are so in their primary and strictest sense, such as would belong to their persons merely in a state of nature, and which every man is entitled to enjoy, whether out of society or in it. The rights of personal security, of personal liberty, and private property do not depend upon the Constitution for their existence. They existed before the Constitution was made, or the government was organized. These are what are termed the "absolute rights" of individuals, which belong to them independently of all government, and which all governments which derive their power from the consent of the governed were instituted to protect. People v. Berberrich (N. Y.) 20 Barb. 224, 229; McCartee v. Orphan Asylum Soc. (N. Y.) 9 Cow. 437, 511, 513, 18 Am. Dec. 516; People v. Toynbee (N. Y.) 2 Parker, Cr. R. 329, 369, 370 (quoting 1 Bl. Comm. 123).
Such entitlements are shared norms of actual human moralities, justified moral norms that all people everywhere share.
We are at the early stage of what may yet become Universal Health Care for all Americans. Health Care falls within the purview of natural or Human rights!
The House passed legislation extending health care to tens of millions of our uninsured, however, the Senate must still approve the plan!
Health care for “all” people is a “human right” and an entitlement that has taken too long to achieve.
While we have struggled to achieve this right for over a century other developed countries have had some form of social insurance (that later evolved into national insurance) for nearly as long as the US has been trying to obtain it.
Some European countries started with compulsory sickness insurance, one of the first systems, for workers beginning in Germany in 1883; other countries including Austria , Hungary , Norway , Britain , Russia , and the Netherlands followed all the way through 1912. Other European countries, including Sweden in 1891, Denmark in 1892, France in 1910, and Switzerland in 1912, subsidized the mutual benefit societies that workers formed among themselves.
So for a very long time, other countries have had some form of universal health care or at least the beginnings of it. The primary reason for the emergence of these programs in Europe was income stabilization and protection against the wage loss of sickness rather than payment for medical expenses, which came later. Programs were not universal to start with and were originally conceived as a means of maintaining incomes and buying the political allegiance of the workers.
Today after nearly a century of attempts and as many failures, we are at the closest point in our history of achieving a basic Human Right for our people, Health Care. And had it not been for the party of big business, the banks, insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical corporations this goal would have been realized some 60 years ago.
Health care as well as adequate food and shelter is a basic Human right.
Although this statement of high principle was adopted at the urging of the “ United States ”, and although it reflects the truths of our nation’s founding documents, our government has achieved neither formal recognition nor practical realization of these rights!
Mass homelessness and the escalating health care crisis in the US are compelling evidence of our disregard for human rights. Sadly, our country is but one of many nations where grave offenses against the dignity of human beings are commonplace, and global enforcement of human rights remains a distant goal
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Certainly health care falls into this category.
Proponents of the concept usually assert that all human being are endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being part of human society.
Even our Declaration of Independence proclaims this truth. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty , and the Pursuit of Happiness”
219 years ago, Dec. 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified. Unalienable rights are not privileges. Depending on your ideology, rights are either granted to us by our Creator, or by nature, which to most people is one and the same. Privileges are granted by a society, or government entity, and are not the same as rights.
By the unalienable or "absolute rights" of individuals is meant those which are so in their primary and strictest sense, such as would belong to their persons merely in a state of nature, and which every man is entitled to enjoy, whether out of society or in it. The rights of personal security, of personal liberty, and private property do not depend upon the Constitution for their existence. They existed before the Constitution was made, or the government was organized. These are what are termed the "absolute rights" of individuals, which belong to them independently of all government, and which all governments which derive their power from the consent of the governed were instituted to protect. People v. Berberrich (N. Y.) 20 Barb. 224, 229; McCartee v. Orphan Asylum Soc. (N. Y.) 9 Cow. 437, 511, 513, 18 Am. Dec. 516; People v. Toynbee (N. Y.) 2 Parker, Cr. R. 329, 369, 370 (quoting 1 Bl. Comm. 123).
Such entitlements are shared norms of actual human moralities, justified moral norms that all people everywhere share.
We are at the early stage of what may yet become Universal Health Care for all Americans. Health Care falls within the purview of natural or Human rights!
The House passed legislation extending health care to tens of millions of our uninsured, however, the Senate must still approve the plan!
Health care for “all” people is a “human right” and an entitlement that has taken too long to achieve.
While we have struggled to achieve this right for over a century other developed countries have had some form of social insurance (that later evolved into national insurance) for nearly as long as the US has been trying to obtain it.
Some European countries started with compulsory sickness insurance, one of the first systems, for workers beginning in Germany in 1883; other countries including Austria , Hungary , Norway , Britain , Russia , and the Netherlands followed all the way through 1912. Other European countries, including Sweden in 1891, Denmark in 1892, France in 1910, and Switzerland in 1912, subsidized the mutual benefit societies that workers formed among themselves.
So for a very long time, other countries have had some form of universal health care or at least the beginnings of it. The primary reason for the emergence of these programs in Europe was income stabilization and protection against the wage loss of sickness rather than payment for medical expenses, which came later. Programs were not universal to start with and were originally conceived as a means of maintaining incomes and buying the political allegiance of the workers.
Today after nearly a century of attempts and as many failures, we are at the closest point in our history of achieving a basic Human Right for our people, Health Care. And had it not been for the party of big business, the banks, insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical corporations this goal would have been realized some 60 years ago.
Health care as well as adequate food and shelter is a basic Human right.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Health Care is a Human Right!
Dennis Kucinich recently wrote an article where he characterized as a “civil right” Health Care, readers commented overwhelmingly that health care was not a civil right as civil rights are granted by government, how wrong they are!
Perhaps Representative Kucinich should have used a more appropriate term such as “Human Right”
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Certainly health care falls into this category.
Proponents of the concept usually assert that all human being are endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being part of human society. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities, as justified moral norms or natural rights supported by strong reasons, as legal rights at a national level, or as a legal right within international law.
However there is no consensus as to precise nature of what should or should not be regarded as a human right in any of the above senses and the abstract concept of human rights has been a subject of intense philosophical debate and criticism.
Certain human rights have been recognized irrespective of law. For example the Supreme Court has legally recognized some fundamental rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, including: the right to privacy, the right to marriage, the right to procreation, the right to interstate travel, the right to enter into contracts, freedom of thought, and the Right to direct a child's upbringing, these are rights so fundamental to society that No law is required to recognize them certainly as a member of the human race we are entitled to the right of health care. America is in a decline, because we as a people lack knowledge. Yet those who oppose Representative Kucinich have a right to be wrong!
Perhaps Representative Kucinich should have used a more appropriate term such as “Human Right”
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Certainly health care falls into this category.
Proponents of the concept usually assert that all human being are endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being part of human society. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities, as justified moral norms or natural rights supported by strong reasons, as legal rights at a national level, or as a legal right within international law.
However there is no consensus as to precise nature of what should or should not be regarded as a human right in any of the above senses and the abstract concept of human rights has been a subject of intense philosophical debate and criticism.
Certain human rights have been recognized irrespective of law. For example the Supreme Court has legally recognized some fundamental rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, including: the right to privacy, the right to marriage, the right to procreation, the right to interstate travel, the right to enter into contracts, freedom of thought, and the Right to direct a child's upbringing, these are rights so fundamental to society that No law is required to recognize them certainly as a member of the human race we are entitled to the right of health care. America is in a decline, because we as a people lack knowledge. Yet those who oppose Representative Kucinich have a right to be wrong!
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