'Obamacare is NOT a human rights victory!'
The Wall Street Journal reports that Democratic Senator Ron Wyden "sent a letter to Oregon health authority director Bruce Goldberg, encouraging the state to seek a waiver from certain ObamaCare rules so it can 'come up with innovative solutions that the Federal government has never had the flexibility or will to implement.' One little-known provision of the bill allows states to opt out of the 'requirement that individuals purchase health insurance,' Mr. Wyden wrote, and 'Because you and I believe that the heart of real health reform is affordability and not mandates, I wanted to bring this feature of Section 1332 to the attention of you and the legislature.'" (read more of today's Daily Dose)
The American Legislative Exchange Council has identified 39 states that have taken preemptive local action to protect themselves from Obamacare and defend patients' rights.
Click here to find contact information for local representatives and senators to be heard on this important issue.
States Take Action Against Obamacare
The American Legislative Exchange Council has identified 39 states that have taken preemptive local action to protect themselves from Obamacare and defend patients' rights. Click here to find contact information for local representatives and senators to be heard on this...
Rick Scott statement on today's health care reform vote
"For more than a year, the American people have listened to what President Obama and Congress had to say about health care reform. Unfortunately, it was a one-way conversation, with Congress refusing to listen to what the American people wanted...
Expecting a Different Result from the Same Health Reform Plan
The quote is familiar - insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And we now see it embodied in President Obama's (allegedly) new health reform proposal released this week.In fact, one of the...
Rick Scott's Statement on the President's Health Care Summit
Statement from Conservatives for Patients' Rights Chairman Rick Scott on the President's Planned Health Care Summit:"If the President is sincerely committed to resetting the health care reform process by finding common, bipartisan ground on how to lower costs and improve...
CPR takes a look at plans that have been discussed, written about or offered up as legislation. Which plans provide that the individual patient can make their own choices regarding the health care they seek? Which plans promote competition within the health care industry? Which plans are just too costly?
Any serious discussion of health care reform that does not include choice, competition, accountability and responsibility — the four "pillars" of patients' rights — will result in our government truly becoming a "nanny-state," making decisions based on what is best for society and government rather than individuals deciding what is best for each of us.