Freedom is the cornerstone of Wyoming and America. Nothing is more personal than your health and health care.
Everyone wants health care reform. We all want costs reduced and better care provided for those who are least advantaged.
It is of paramount importance that personal liberty be respected in health reform. No matter how "necessary" some may deem it; it never, ever, makes sense to take rights away from one citizen to confer the guise of safety to another.
Unfortunately this is precisely what some individuals want to do with health reform. Either by government mandate, enforcement of the dictates of a government panel of "experts" or even simply the rationing of health care, your right to make decisions about your health and health care is being eroded.
The cornerstone of health care reform must be the protection and preservation of the rights of people to make their own health and health care choices.
Without that protection, lobbyists, bureaucrats and politicians will create rules and regulations that make it harder and more difficult to get any health care without the approval and authorization of the government and special interests.
Wyoming's Health Freedom Act safeguards the personal liberty of every Wyomingite by preventing government control of your health and health care decisions.
The Health Freedom Act says simply, "Health care reform, yes, but PROTECT FREEDOM FIRST!"
On Election Day, Arizonans can give the nation the gift of a good example. They can enact a measure that could shape the health-care debate that will arrest or accelerate the nation's slide into statism. Proposition 101, the Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act, would put the following language into Arizona's Constitution: [More...]
More waivers granted for the new health care reform law, this time to whole states.
Where's Wyoming's waiver? Ridiculous that an unelected bureaucrat can decide which laws apply to which states.
The "Affordable" Care Act is simply a stunning boondoggle.
In defending his Medicaid plan Representative Ryan nailed the exact principle the Health Care Freedom Amendment is about:
The President’s plan begins with trillions of dollars in higher taxes, and it relies on a plan to control costs in Medicare that would give a board of 15 unelected bureaucrats in Washington the power to deeply ration care. This would disrupt the lives of those currently in retirement and lead to waiting lists for today’s seniors. … The disagreement isn’t really about the problem. It’s about the solution to controlling costs in Medicare. And if I could sum up that disagreement in a couple of sentences, I would say this: Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers. Their plan is to give government the power to deny care to seniors. … That’s the real class warfare that threatens us — a class of governing elites picking winners and losers, and determining our destinies for us.
Leaving aside the question of the solution to the Medicare boondoggle, the fundamental health care question can always be boiled done to, "Who better to make decisions about you health care then you?"
The Health Care Freedom Act says you are.
The people of Wyoming will finally get to make their voice heard in 2012.
SJ-2 survived all amendments and remained as originally presented from the Senate.