An Ominous Quantum Leap Toward Socialized Medicine

1……… Healthcare Hypocrites
2……….Americans for Free Choice in Medicine Blasts Bush on
Medicare
3……….Americans for Free Choice in Medicine on Medicare Reform
4……….Kill Bill -- to Expand Medicare
5……….Crossing the Line Over Health Care As a Right
6……….Health Care Is Not A Right
7……….Americans for Free Choice in Medicine- Who We Are
8……….What You Can Do

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1………. Healthcare Hypocrites
October 15, 2003

by Michael P. Tremoglie

"Once again, the subject of healthcare reform gains prominence on
the national scene. The specter of single - payer, socialized healthcare
is being proffered by the Democratic Party's presidential
candidates.

It would be a grievous error to believe that the current proponents
of a single payer healthcare system are concerned with anything other
than ideology."

http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/t/tremoglie/03/tremoglie101503.htm
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2……Americans for Free Choice in Medicine Blasts Bush on
Medicare

"Bush's Medicare law is neither compassionate nor conservative -- it
is pure Big Government and it will bring harm to millions of
Americans."

"Not everyone is thrilled with President Bush's new Medicare drug
regulations -- and at least one organization is directly challenging
the President's motives.

Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM) denounced the largest
expansion of government intervention in medicine since Medicare was
passed 38 years ago as a huge step toward socialized medicine."

http://www.afcm.org/pr-bushonmedicare.html
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3….Americans for Free Choice in Medicine on Medicare Reform

"On the brink of the biggest expansion of Medicare in its 38-year
history, Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM), a non-profit
patient education organization, warned that older patients will
suffer under the proposed changes.

"The ideas in the proposed Medicare reform bills are based on
government control," explained Richard E. Ralston, AFCM's executive
director. "It's an attempt by the government to control health care
costs by restricting medical treatment for the oldest Americans under
the guise of prescription drug coverage.

Patients have the right to choose and purchase the drugs they need in
consultation with their doctors."

http://www.afcm.org/pr-medicarereform.html
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4……… Kill Bill -- to Expand Medicare
by Scott Holleran

"From time to time, Congress passes, and the President signs, a bill
that forever changes every American's life.

The Medicare prescription drug coverage bill -- which President Bush
has vowed to sign -- is such an event; if passed, this expansion of
Medicare, like the Medicare Act of 1965, will make history.

With the nation at war following a devastating attack, the economy
struggling, and every realistic economic analyst forecasting
financial trouble for the 38-year-old government program, expanding
Medicare is among the most ill conceived notions in American
politics…..."

http://www.afcm.org/killbill.html
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5……….. Crossing the Line Over Health Care As a Right
by Scott Holleran

Summary: L.A.'s striking grocery employees have declared, by a 97
percent vote, that they are born with a right to health care --
practiced by the doctor and funded by the business that hired them.

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3177
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6…………Health Care Is Not A Right
by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D

"Most people who oppose socialized medicine do so on the grounds
that it is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical; i.e., it is a
noble idea — which just somehow does not work.

I do not agree that socialized medicine is moral and well-
intentioned, but impractical. Of course, it is impractical — it
does not work — but I hold that it is impractical because it is
immoral.

This is not a case of noble in theory but a failure in practice; it
is a case of vicious in theory and therefore a disaster in
practice."

http://www.afcm.org/hcinar.html
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7……….Americans for Free Choice in Medicine (AFCM) is a national
non-profit, non-partisan educational organization. AFCM promotes the philosophy
of individual rights, personal responsibility and free market economics in the
health care industry.

AFCM advocates a full, free market health care system by
promoting medical savings accounts (MSAs), tax equity for the
individual, and AFCM teaches the history of HMOs, which were
instituted by a long, incremental process of government intervention.

AFCM sponsors educational programs, lectures and town hall
meetings for the public. Membership grades begin at $25 per year and
may be tax deductible.

Members include patients, Medicare recipients, physicians, nurses
and health care professionals, insurance industry professionals,
including agents, pharmacists and pharmaceutical industry
professionals, financial services professionals, businessmen,
employee benefits professionals and hospital staff.

WWW.AFCM.ORG
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8……What You Can Do

Contact the following key legislators by calling or using CapWiz:

http://capwiz.com/yo-demo/

Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.)
Tel: (202)-225-4031
Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.)
Tel: (202) 225-2915
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
<http://tomdelay.house.gov/>
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.)
Tel: (202) 225-4476
Rep. Mike Bilirakis (R-Fla.)
Tel: (202) 225-5755
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.)
Tel: (202) 225-4071
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
<http://www.house.gov/rangel/>
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.)
Tel: (202) 224-3344
Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)
Tel: (202) 224-2321
Finance Committee Chair Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)
Tel: (202) 224-3744
Finance Committee ranking member Max Baucus (D-Mont.):
Tel: (202) 224-2651
Judiciary Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
Tel: (202) 224-5251
Budget Committee Chair Don Nickles (R-Okla.)
Tel: (202) 224-5754
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)
Tel: (202) 224-4521
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Tel: (202) 224-6472
John Breaux (D-La.)
Tel: (202) 224-4623