Even the Wall Street Journal has noticed that health care is a fundamental right which corporations and the government are trying to abridge so sharply that there is little or nothing left of it.
Click here (http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26225) to tell your State and Federal legislators you want your health freedom choices protected by law.
In last Tuesday’s election, Arizona voters were given the chance to preserve their right to choose their own doctors, their own treatments and their own health options. Proposition 101, The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act” said, “no law shall be passed that restricts a person’s freedom of choice of private heath care systems or private plans of any type” and that “No law shall interfere with a person’s right to pay directly for lawful medical services ….”
Specifically, voters were asked to approve a Proposition which stated that no laws shall be passed which:
~ Restrict a person’s freedom to choose a private health care plan or system of his/her choice.
~ Interfere with a person’s or entity’s right to pay directly for lawful medical or other healthcare services.
~ Impose a penalty or fine, of any type, for choosing to obtain or decline health care coverage.
~ Impose a penalty or fine, of any type, for participation in any particular health care system or plan.
Insurance companies and government agencies went wild and funded strong opposition to the idea that Arizonians could control the conduct – and cost – of their own health care.
Amazingly, Arizona voters rejected the idea by a small margin. But your state could become the first to make your right to choose your own health care, unabridged by law, your choice. It’s up to you.
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In what way is the freedom to choose one’s care not a fundamental patient right?:
From the Editorial Page of the Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2008
On Tuesday Arizonans will vote on a ballot initiative that could resonate in the national debate over the future of health care. Proposition 101, the Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act, has set off a storm of opposition, though its language hardly seems controversial. It reads that “no law shall be passed that restricts a person’s freedom of choice of private heath care systems or private plans of any type.” Also: “No law shall interfere with a person’s right to pay directly for lawful medical services . . .”
Who could be against an initiative that protects the right of patients to choose and pay for a doctor or a health plan? The answer is proponents of a health-care system run by the government. For them, enshrining into law protections for private health plans is anathema. Believe it or not, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce also opposes the initiative. Its big health-insurance members want to protect their interests as contractors to the state’s Medicaid plan.
Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano argues that Proposition 101 would limit future health-care reform options. Eric Novack, a physician and the chairman of Proposition 101, responds, “The only option that our initiative rules out is a mandatory single-payer system.” Single-payer health-care systems, as in Canada, make it illegal in most cases for people to go outside the government’s system and contract for their own medical services. Arizona’s proposition forbids those kinds of restrictions.
Defenders of a government-run system, Barack Obama among them, insist they have no intention of limiting patient rights to choose health plans and doctors. That is belied, however, by the strong opposition to the Arizona initiative. The Democratic leader of the Arizona state House, Phil Lopes, is trying to pass a single-payer bill which states explicitly: “A person shall not provide private health insurance to a beneficiary for health care that is covered by the health security plan . . . .”
Proposition 101 goes to the heart of the national health-care debate. Universal coverage plans, regulated by government, nearly always try to restrain costs by restricting the choices individual can make. This assumes a uniformity in the real-world of patients or the practice of medicine that simply doesn’t exist, especially amid rapid developments in medical science. Who should decide — the patient or a government treatment schedule — whether a cancer sufferer should be able to try an experimental therapy or under what circumstances a senior citizen gets a hip replacement?
Allowing patients to choose their own medical treatment, get third or fourth opinions, or seek out experimental medicines saves lives. Randy Kendrick, an early supporter of the initiative, says her ability to look around for treatments among doctors after a serious leg injury saved her from what her original physicians said would be a life confined in a wheelchair. Courageous patients and innovative medical clinicians find each other constantly this way. The patient-clinician interface is one reason the U.S. remains a locus of medical progress. Ensuring this progress continues depends on maximizing patient choices. A publicly bureaucratized system will slow it.
Proposition 101’s fate is up in the air because its opponents, led by the Governor, are spending about four times more than supporters. They are doing so in the belief that if health-care choice passes in Arizona, it will spread to other states. It is ironic the groups opposing the rights of Arizona citizens to choose their own health care purport to back a “patient bill of rights.” In what way is the freedom to choose one’s care not a fundamental patient right?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122549368778389487.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
