Patient Power

I would support Obamas and his new health care insurance program, but I didn't hear from him what "medical rationing" means and that sounds exactly like what insurance companies are doing right now: denying people claims for expensive treatments which keep them alive. So unless Obama can guarantee that people who suffer from cancer, aids and other diseases that need an expensive treatment will get that treatment, well, I can't give him my vote.
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James T. - Insurance Agent

Excellent;

We're doing the exact same thing here in Ohio.

www.theohioproject.com

www.ohiolibertycouncil.com

We have until 30 June to get over 600,000 signatures.

Good luck to you folks out there in Colorado, We'll be thinking of you also as we work the Petition signing booths and events.

John Mc

I would like to know where you have the petitions. I will refer my friends so that they may sign. Lring@att.net

If we succeed in protecting Coloradoans from ObamaCare, we still are subject to increase premiums and income taxes, are we not?:

The health care freedom of choice initiative would prevent the state from forcing people to enroll in a health plan. It also guarantees that people will have the freedom to pay cash for the health care that they wish.

The initiative does not protect anyone from premium increases or income taxes. Income taxes are legal under the US and Colorado constitutions. Premiums are prices for the financial protection that health insurance provides. Arbitrarily fixing them would be enacting a price control. Price controls always do serious damage, and in this case would make the market for health insurance even less functional than it is. ObamaCare, by the way, does enact backdoor price controls via minimum loss ratios and various regulatory bodies.

What the proposed amendment would do is keep Colorado from imposing a single health care system (legal under ObamaCare if the state got a waiver) on the citizens of Colorado. Proponents of single payer could still have a single payer system. All they would have to do is create such a good system that everyone would want to voluntarily be a member.

The way to stop premium increases is to reduce the cost of health care. Two major things will do that--a reduction in unnecessary regulation, which accounts for 10 percent of annual spending, and an increase in consumer directed care. Consumer directed care has been shown to increase people's satisfaction and reduce costs by 20 to 30 percent.

ObamaCare and state run health care do just the opposite. They increase unnecessary regulation by making people prepay even their smallest health care expenses, and they force people to purchase unnecessarily expensive insurance plans with benefits they neither want nor need. Government run care is also populated with innumerable boards and commissions with grants, regulatory, and pilot programs that given innumerable government functionaries cushy positions from which they can tell others what to do. It also turns otherwise free people into fawning, dependent, rent seekers begging this or that commission to give them an advantage over others.

Existing evidence shows that the Obama approach makes costs explode, and that consumer directed care, even for people in Medicaid, makes costs fall.

Passing the freedom of health care choice initiative will help contain the damage done by government meddling in medical care and set the stage for letting free people get on with the job of implementing real, proven, reforms that set physicians and patients free, improve health care, and lower costs.

Constraining federal government to its enumerated powers is essential to the survival of our republic.

As a doctor, a patient, and a citizen I support the healthcare reform movement. Although imperfect in many ways, the current bill is a valuable statement of principle, that healthcare is a human right and not a privilege of wealth. Like other landmarks in social progress, it will not be reversed by your rabid right wing zealotry. Do what you will, in the end you will merely stand revealed as reactionary troglodytes. As President Obama said today, if you think you can repeal healthcare reform, how that it has passed, "Go for it!"

Read the Condstitution. #!. The rights do not come from gorenment, but God.
#2. Health care is not a right, even the great Progressive FDR knew that and tried to establish a new bill of rights which included Healthcare along with a right to a job, and right to a home. Fortunately, we still had a Congress with some gumption and whose place in the balance of power was still recognized by even the near dictatorial authority of FDR.

#3. No one I know denies the need for Healthcasre Reform, but that does automatically call for Government take-over.

Health care reform has reduced our individual freedom. As personal liberty recedes, so does prosperity. It may not be reversed by our "rabid right wing zealotry," but will be revealed for what it is in time, as its inefficiency does what social reform always has done and always will do. The USSR was the greatest "landmark in social progress," and it was revealed for what it was.

"As personal liberty recedes, so does prosperity." This little bit of
libertarian cant is full of error and unjustified assumption. The basic
mistake is to assume that laissez faire capitalism constitutes liberty. In
fact, it's better described as license - the ability of the wealthy and
powerful to do whatever they please at the expense of everyone else. Social
Darwinism, the underlying philosophy of this kind of economy, celebrates
freedom for some and serfdom (pace' Hayek) for the masses.
In fact, the "greatest landmark in social progress" was the New Deal, not
Bolshevik communism, which no one on the left favors. The New Deal produced
the greatest flowering of the middle class and the national economy in
history, reversed only by the rise of Reaganomics, which after thirty years
of continuous right wing domination has brought us to our present sorry
state.