"Campaign for Liberty Statement of Health Care Reform Principles"

[galtgulch]

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<<<"Campaign for Liberty Statement of Health Care Reform Principles

Posted by Matt Hawes on 07/20/09

Last updated 07/20/09

Campaign for Liberty agrees that America's health care system needs serious reform. We applaud the sentiment shared across the political spectrum that action must be taken and believe that our nation stands at an important crossroads.

Since the inception of managed care in the 1970s, excessive regulation and corporatism have damaged the patient-doctor relationship and driven up consumer costs. The problems we see today are the result of a collusion between big government and big business, not of market failure, and it is critical that instead of moving toward even more government and less freedom, America enact the right reforms to empower consumers and doctors.

Campaign for Liberty will support health care reform solutions that:

• Give Americans control over their health care by giving them control over their health care dollar via tax credits and deductions similar to those outlined in Congressman Ron Paul's Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act (HR 1495).

• Protect privacy rights by allowing patients and physicians to opt-out of any government-mandated or funded system of electronic health care records, and repeal the federal law creating an "unique patient identifier" by adopting the policies contained in Congressman Ron Paul's Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act (HR 2630).

• Empower doctors by softening antitrust law restrictions on health care professionals when they negotiate with insurers and medical providers. Our current system gives drug companies and cooperate interests all the power.

Campaign for Liberty will oppose any health care reform bill that:

• Raises taxes on any American.

• Forces Americans to purchase a government-approved health insurance plan, imposes fines or tax increases on individuals for failure to purchase health insurance, or conditions the receipt of any government benefit on the purchase or maintenance of health insurance. Instead, Congress should protect Americans from mandatory health insurance by adopting policies like those contained in Congressman Ron Paul's Coercion is Not Health Care Act (HR 2629).

• Establishes a government-run or taxpayer-financed health insurance system. Creation of a "public health insurance option" is a first step toward the complete nationalization of health care. Government-managed and financed health care will inevitability result in lower standards, waiting lines, and rationed care.">>>

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[Selene]

Gulch:

Out of curiosity, are you a member of the AMA, or the AARP?

They have both endorsed the marxist's plan.

Adam

[galtgulch]

Gulch:

Out of curiosity, are you a member of the AMA, or the AARP?

They have both endorsed the marxist's plan.

Adam

Adam,

I refuse to join the AMA although I am a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society where I put in my two cents as a Delegate in the MMS House of Delegates. Several years ago it became evident that there is a leftist Marxist contingent within the MMS who have been advocating for a Single Payer System, read socialism, and that their representation within the MMS far exceeded the fifteen percent of the outstanding members of the MMS who endorse that horror.

The MMS never endorsed SPS rather stood in favor of our mixed whatever you may call it system.

I am not an AARP member either.

I am a member of the AAPS, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which is pro free market in medicine and everything else.

www.campaignforliberty.com 20 JUL 10PM 184,853

gulch

[Selene]

Gulch:

Excellent. Consistent. I have been asking folks for the last six weeks what percent of total licensed doctors in the US are members of the AMA and almost all of them are clueless.

My understanding is that about 30 % are members, but that seems a little low.

Adam

[BaalChatzaf]

• Give Americans control over their health care by giving them control over their health care dollar via tax credits and deductions similar to those outlined in Congressman Ron Paul's Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act (HR 1495).

If taxes were about ten percent of income (or even less) tax credits would not be necessary.

If God Himself did not ask for more than a tithe, why should the government get more than ten percent?

Ba'al Chatzaf

[sbeaulieu]

• Give Americans control over their health care by giving them control over their health care dollar via tax credits and deductions similar to those outlined in Congressman Ron Paul's Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act (HR 1495).

If taxes were about ten percent of income (or even less) tax credits would not be necessary.

If God Himself did not ask for more than a tithe, why should the government get more than ten percent?

Ba'al Chatzaf

I would love to hear Obama respond to that one. Of course, separation of Church and State responses would likely follow...

~ Shane

[sbeaulieu]

Galtgulch,

Your AAPS is waging war ;)

Doctors Wage War Against Obama's Health Care Overhaul

FOX NEWS

[Selene]

Folks:

It is really simple, whenever an act has a Government name, it will never occur and the obverse will be the default.

America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

The Clean Air Act

The Uniform interstate Child Support Enforcement Act

The Fair Credit Reporting Act

The Safe Streets Act

The No Child Left Behind Act

This is the incremental establishment of the "soft tyranny" that Tocqueville warned about.

Essentially, my friends, it is coming without a shot being fired, no tanks in the street...just the soft smother of a somnolent

citizenry taking a siesta from responsibility.

Adam