Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine

Website: http://www.westandfirm.org/

Statement of Principles and Goals:

We stand for Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine.

America was founded on the principles of freedom and individual
rights. Applied to medicine, the law must respect the individual
rights of doctors and other providers, allowing them the freedom to
practice medicine.

This includes the right to choose their patients, to determine the
best treatment for their patients, and to bill their patients
accordingly. In the same manner, the law must respect the individual
rights of patients, allowing them the freedom to seek out the best
doctors and treatment they can afford.

Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (FIRM) promotes the
philosophy of individual rights, personal responsibility, and free
market economics in health care.

FIRM holds that the only moral and practical way to obtain medical
care is that of individuals choosing and paying for their own medical
care in a capitalist free market.

Federal and state regulations and entitlements, we maintain, are the
two most important factors in driving up medical costs. They have
created the crisis we face today.

What does FIRM do?

-researches and studies the work of scholars and policy experts in
the areas of health care, law, philosophy, and economics to inform
and to foster public debate on the causes of rising costs of health
care and health insurance.

-sponsors and holds public educational programs, lectures and town
hall meetings on issues regarding the causes of the crises in health
care and health insurance, and on the morality and economic costs of
various health care programs and proposals.

-makes speakers available for radio and television interviews, for
professional conferences or symposiums, and for local, private or
public meetings and talks in Colorado.

FIRM provides you with information about how to protect freedom and
individual rights in medicine, and you decide how to use it.

FIRM is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization; it does
not endorse any health care treatment, product, provider, or
organization. Membership levels begin at $35 per year and are tax-
deductible, as provided by law.

Contact FIRM
Contact FIRM:
FIRM (Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine)
9975 Wadsworth Parkway
Unit K-2, #123
Westminster, CO 80021
Phone: 303 431 2525
E-mail: FIRM@...

About the Founder of FIRM

Lin Zinser practiced law in Denver for 19 years. As an attorney, most
of her work was in business defense litigation. She routinely
litigated cases with medical issues, as well as cases involving
insurance issues, particularly auto, business, disability, and health
coverages. She received her JD from University of Colorado at Boulder
and a B.A. in Philosophy from Wichita State University.

In 2004, Lin Zinser began bringing speakers to the Denver metro area
to speak on a variety of ethical and political issues. She recently
founded Ideas, Matter, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation, to
further that effort.

Ms. Zinser became concerned with the increasing threat of socialized
medicine in Colorado and nationwide. Freedom and Individual Rights in
Medicine (FIRM) was then created as a program ofIdeas Matter, Inc.,
in order to serve as a resource for information on the growing crises
in both health care and health insurance.

Lin Zinser can be reached at Lin@....

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