Rights Watch warns against passing a law that deprives millions of Americans of the right to health news

Human Rights Watch has warned against depriving millions of Americans of the right to health coverage if President Donald Trump’s bill was passed to reduce taxes and spending, which was approved by the Senate, and urged members of the House of Representatives to seize the second opportunity to reject the law.

The international human rights organization recorded that the controversial draft law would extend “tax cuts that are equivalent to unequal benefits for the richest families in the country, while spending on health and other basic general programs for human rights is reduced.”

The organization stated that if the project is approved to be legally, “millions of people will be deprived of covering health insurance, and to harm human rights in many ways in the United States.”

She considered that the discounts and amendments included in the draft law threaten the health of millions of people in the United States, and even the lives of many, and indicated that researchers from the universities of Yale and Pennsylvania expected last June that these amendments “may cause about 51 thousand additional deaths annually.”

The draft law includes other provisions. Human Rights Watch said it is damaging human rights, such as allocating “tens of billions of dollars from public funds to expand migrant detention, including families.”

“Other violations”

The organization also expected, in the event that the law is passed, the violations that were documented during the enforcement of immigration laws, including “arbitrary detention and deprivation of detainees of legal procedures and inhumane detention conditions, will exacerbate.

Matt McConnell, a researcher in economic justice and human rights in Human Rights Watch, said that the law contains “harsh discounts and huge transfer of wealth from public good to special pockets, does not constitute a solution to economic inequality or immigration administration and asylum procedures, but rather a plan for cruelty.”

McConnell considered that it is “the horrific that President Trump has fought his campaign on the basis of reforming the economy, but he offers a budget that makes ordinary people pay the price of the tax cuts of millionaires of their health.”

He explained that the United States deserves a health care system “that guarantees everyone’s right to health and provides a budget that allows this.”

Human Rights Watch called on the United States to work to align its tax and financial policies with human rights, and stressed the importance of giving priority to protecting “all rights and achieving them, including the right to health and designing tax systems that are in line with these obligations.”