Civil Rights: The Right to Health

     Two years since the beginning of America's time under the Trump Administration, it looks like the right to health is starting to change for specific groups of people. To clarify, the right to health means that citizens of the U.S. should have access to the highest standards of both physical and mental health. There have been some policies made by the Trump Administration that affect people's right to health in a negative way; in 2017 the number of Americans covered by health insurance declined for the first time since the Affordable Care Act was implemented. The Trump Administration has been forcing specific drug testing requirements on people that receive Medicaid which has resulted as a loss of eligibility for a lot of people. There have also been some policies put in place that affect any LGBT person's eligibility as well.
       As far as people's right to health with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) goes, the situation isn't any better. Even since President Obama's time in office, a lot of people under ICE custody have been dying, just from President's Trump's time in office, 22 people have died and not much has been done to improve the situation.
     Although the right to health itself isn't the issue, there are still a lot more situations where the right to health isn't being applied to everyone fairly, and a lot of that is due to Trump Administration however things still weren't that great even before President Trump's time. I didn't know the right to health applied to so many things before this and I think it's important that we pay attention to everything that it applies to in order to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

Source:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/02/04/us-right-health-peril 

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