In 2010, the President Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was also known as Affordable Care Act(ACA) or Obamacare, was enacted by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama. It made a huge change to the American health insurance system, not only at preventing insurers to refuse to sell insurance to consumers because of an existing condition, but also at covering all kinds of disease. One of the big goals of Obamacare is to provide more access to citizens, which also is the expectation of the Second Bill of rights claimed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Obamacare is a typical example of social policies which provide public services to guarantee the well-being of all citizens. Basically, they consist of welfare programs that aim at eliminating insecurity, lowering the poverty rate, and providing social welfare. Aid to Families with Independent Children(AEDC), for example, was used to be a welfare program that paid women with children. Like food stamps, it was a un-contributory program. People did not have to pay tax to be qualified to receive benefits. Another example would be social security program. The money you paid would eventually pay back when people retired in the form of health coverage. …show more content…
In particular, they include the right to have a “useful and remunerative job”, to have “adequate food and clothing and recreation ”, to have “a return which will give [someone] and [his or her family] a decent living;” to “trade in an atmosphere of fair competition”, to have “a decent home”, to have “adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment”, and to have “a good education.” They are different from other rights such as civil rights, because they mainly focus on providing adequate economic conditions for