everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

A couverture maladie universelle is created for residents of metropolitan France and the overseas départements which guarantees to everyone health care coverage through a medical insurance policy [une prise en charge des soins par un régime d'assurance maladie] and, to those persons with the lowest incomes, the right to supplementary insurance protection and exemption from the requirement to pay charges up front [and then apply for reimbursement].