Ijust set up a new Facebook group for Pennsylvania supporters of the
national organization "Americans for Free Choice in Medicine" (AFCM)
http://www.afcm.org
For those still unfamiliar with Facebook, this social networking site
is a *great* way to recruit doctors, patients, the general public to
become suuporters of health care reform and other causes.
Join the Pennsylvania Supporters of Americans for Free Choice in
Medicine Facebook group, help spread the word, and help lay the
fouondation for the "Health Care Tea Party" down the road!
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http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?drop&ref=mb#/group.php?gid=131896655172
Pennsylvania Supporters of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine
(AFCM) support the mission of AFCM, 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
health savings accounts (HSAs), 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 $40 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. AFCM was founded
in 1993.
About Executive Director, Richard E. Ralston
Richard E. Ralston has been Executive Director of Americans for Free
Choice in Medicine since joining the part-time staff of AFCM in 2002.
His letters and columns written in support of individual rights and
personal choice in health-care policy have since been published in
dozens of major newspapers in the United States.
After serving seven years in the U.S. Army, Mr. Ralston completed an
M.A. in International Relations at the University of Southern
California in 1977.
He then began a career in newspaper publishing and direct marketing.
He has been the circulation director and publishing director of The
Christian Science Monitor, a radio producer, a national television
news business manager, and a book publisher.
As an independent direct marketing consultant, his clients included
IBM, British Airways, CNN, and the Los Angeles Times. His book
Communism: Its Rise and Fall in the 20th Century was published in
1991. He edited the book Why Businessmen Need Philosophy in 1999.
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