Today is the 69th anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://unudhr.blogspot.com/
Notice that nothing was included to make its enforcement mandatory.
The only way we will ever get these articles enforced is through
legislation yet not one single president since Lyndon Johnson has made
any effort to bring forward legislation for enforcing this Declaration.
We will never get New Deal or Great Society type legislation unless we
as a class, the working class, have our own political party with working
class candidates.
In order to assure us of most of these rights
we will probably have to get rid of capitalism and get our country on
the road to socialism.
Half the people in this country say they
are willing to consider the socialist alternative to capitalism so
socialists are going to have to start bringing forward solutions to our
most pressing problems in a way that demonstrates the superiority of
socialist alternatives to the problems created by capitalism.
One of the best ways to do this, in my opinion, is with the health care issue.
We need to begin a campaign to win a National Public Health Care
System... not Obamacare, not single-payer, not HR 676 nor Medicare for
All--- all of which leave the for-profit, free market health care system
intact... but a National Public Health Care System based on the model of
public education:
Publicly Financed.
Publicly Administered.
Publicly Delivered.
The United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares
health care to be a human right.
Only a National Public Health Care
System can fulfill this human right.
Martin Luther King Jr. on health care:
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
King Berates Medical Care Given Negroes
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wis.), March 26, 1966
CHICAGO (AP) - Massive direct-action is needed to "raise the
conscience of the nation" to the segregated and inferior medical care
received by Negroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said Friday night.
Calling for court suits to force doctors and hospitals to comply with
the Civil Rights Act, King and officers of the Medical Committee for
Human Rights accused the American Medical Association of a "conspiracy
of inaction" in civil rights.
At a press conference before his speech to the committee's annual
meeting. King said: "We are concerned about the constant use of federal
funds to support this most notorious expression of segregation. Of
all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking
and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.
"I see no alternative to direct action and creative nonviolence to raise the conscience of the nation."
