DocsFighting4HealthCareReform Digest is a free informational digest for doctors who recognize that the US medical system, though the best in the world, is in crisis due to the destruction of the doctor-patient relationship and how we pay for health care. This crisis directly results from harmful government regulations, employer-controlled health insurance, entitlement programs and Managed Care- which subvert personal responsibility and cost-conscious behavior in medical decision making. Symptoms include: rising costs and uninsured, reduced care, bureaucratic denial of information and treatment and the erosion of our basic freedoms.

Many proposals by politicians, intellectuals and medical professionals themselves further remove control and responsibility over medical decision-making from the individual, placing it in the hands of the same government and 3rd party-payer bureaucracies which have created the crisis in the first place.

Expanding government-financed Medicare to include prescription drugs, and other socialist proposals not only violate personal freedom, individual and property rights, but will only cause deteriorations in quality and accessibility to health care. Only a system that protects the individual rights and financial incentives of medical producers and that restores personal control, responsibility and cost-consciousness in medical decision-making to medical consumers can solve this crisis.

DocsFighting4HealthCareReform Digest promotes the idea that doctors properly fight for the future of our patients by fighting first for *themselves*, and for all producers and providers of the quality services people depend on, and by educating their patients and colleagues in the proper principles of medical reform. It promotes free market medical economics and a philosophy of individual rights and personal responsibility. Only bureaucratic deregulation and privatization- not further statist controls- can cure the cancer.