According to Article 25 of THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS,

[elleng]

signed by the U.S. on December 10, 1948, all countries must provide for their citizens, guaranteed basic well-being, including medical care, food, and social services.

[CousinIT]

1. Trumpcare could violate international law, U.N. says

The United Nations contacted the Trump administration in early February to warn that repealing Obamacare would violate international law because it takes healthcare away from 30 million people. Knowing this, the Trump administration chose not to notify Congress’ Democratic leaders of this information as it was obligated to, and only came to light because an anonymous government official leaked it recently.

A confidential letter titled ,“Urgent Appeal from Special Procedures,” written by Dainius Pūras, a Lithuanian doctor, was sent to the Trump administration on Feb. 2 by the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights in Geneva (OHCHR). The letter says that the GOP’s health care plan would reportedly take away 30 million citizens’ healthcare, violating “the right to social security of the people in the United States.”

It is important to note that this is a warning, not a direct threat. Repealing Obamacare would not immediately indict the Trump administration of an international crime, but it would open the United States up to being heavily fined the U.N.

Pūras' addresses the question of whether the United States was in violation of the law before Obamacare was implemented in 2010, calling the repeal “retrogressive measures” which are “not permissible.”

http://www.laloyolan.com/news/trumpcare-could-violate-international-law-u-n-says/article_c3b37a9d-8743-5a15-8ed0-57b9930f39da.html

[Doreen]

2. We have already failed miserably on medical in the past ( before Obama )

but with trump the other two are going to follow at a extremely devastating rate. Oh yeah, the medical will go back down to worse than it has been in a very long time.

[mwooldri]

3. Sadly the US has not ratified the UDHR.

Even though Eleanor Roosevelt was a key architect.

Here's another quote - this time from Aneurin Bevan:

"No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means."

Mind you he had a few other good ones:

"Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets."

And a favourite of mine from the list I'm reading:

"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."

Simply substitute Republican Party and this should be any Democratic Party's leader's vision.

[burrowowl]

4. That is true, the U$ of A hasn't

ratified it!

[elleng]

5. Legal effect

While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations. In addition, many international lawyers[25] believe that the Declaration forms part of customary international law[26] and is a powerful tool in applying diplomatic and moral pressure to governments that violate any of its articles. The 1968 United Nations International Conference on Human Rights advised that the Declaration "constitutes an obligation for the members of the international community" to all persons. The Declaration has served as the foundation for two binding UN human rights covenants: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and many more. The Declaration continues to be widely cited by governments, academics, advocates, and constitutional courts, and by individuals who appeal to its principles for the protection of their recognised human rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

[NobodyHere]

6. So maybe the UN should provide healthcare

Remember this is an organization that has Saudi Arabia on it's Human Rights Council

[HeartachesNhangovers]

7. Since the US has never provided all of

it's citizens with medical care, food OR social services, I'm going to guess that this was just a feel-good document. Has any other signatory country provided those things to it's citizens?

[JudyM]

8. We lose on the food and social services dimensions, as well.

[NCTraveler]

9. What percentage of Americans had guaranteed medical care in '48? Nt