The creation of “rights” to things such as health care and adequate food and housing and education date to the Franklin Roosevelt’s “four freedoms” speech (which were setting a platform for American entrance into World War II). Arguably he got if from us, since Jewish communities always assumed that our communal government had a duty to address basic needs of the poor.
One should note that Roosevelt was not known for his skill at economics (he became president at what should have been the end of a recession, and stretched it out into the great depression), and that addressing “freedom of want” is economically challenging.