naa a22 4500 510738567 CHVBK 20180411083019.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12142-012-0247-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12142-012-0247-x Schimmel Noam Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, London, UK aut The Place of Human Rights in American Efforts to Expand and Universalize Healthcare [Elektronische Daten] [Noam Schimmel] This article explores the very limited cases historically in the twentieth century when human rights was used in American policy debate as a defending principle for the provision of government-guaranteed universal healthcare. It discusses these cases and examines various reasons as to why this is so, noting the major emphasis in American political culture on negative rather than positive liberty. It examines the shift in political culture from the Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson eras that embraced social and economic rights and defined them as such to the post-Reagan era when conservative ideologies were ascendant. These ideologies reject the legitimacy of social and economic rights and remain dominant in the United States. It comparatively situates the American refusal to consider universal healthcare a human right with European affirmations of such a right and to those found in various treaties of international law. Finally, it analyzes how Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—while not adopting the rhetoric of human rights does, functionally, enable as a matter of public policy an entitlement to healthcare. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Healthcare nationallicence Rhetoric nationallicence Law nationallicence Universality nationallicence Human Rights Review Springer Netherlands 14/1(2013-03-01), 1-29 1524-8879 14:1<1 2013 14 12142 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-012-0247-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-012-0247-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schimmel Noam Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Rights Review Springer Netherlands 14/1(2013-03-01), 1-29 1524-8879 14:1<1 2013 14 12142 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer