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- IAP Bulletin 091221 December 21, 2009
Independent American Party Stand
On Health-Care Reform
Major provisions of the health-care reform are likely to include:
1) Every citizen will be required to obtain health-care coverage.
2) Employers will be required to offer affordable coverage or pay a fine when
workers seek federal subsidized coverage.
3) The overall cost of the reform package will be offset by increased taxes in
the health care industry such as a 40 percent excise tax on the more expensive
insurance policies.
4) The overall cost of the reform package will also be offset by cuts in future
Medicare spending.
How will this health-care reform, with its cuts in future Medicare spending, effect
you and me?
Bottom line, it means that our Government recognizes that socialism, at least in
the traditional Medicare program, is an unsustainable expense to the national
economy. In order to cut expenses, our Government is going to deny the
expensive care that was previously given to senior citizens. If a person wants the
life extending treatment, another means for acquiring the treatment, such as the
purchase of a private insurance policy, will be necessary. Most senior citizens will
not be able to afford a private insurance policy, especially one that includes a 40
percent sales or excise tax. It means that people had better begin looking for
sources other than traditional modern medicine and government control for their
health and quality of life care.
Considering the high costs of modern medicine and related technology, it is easy
to understand why the costs associated with maintaining the health and life of
senior citizens has become so expensive and has become a major factor in the
development of an unsustainable economy. This demonstrates the fallacies of
socialism and why the cost of socialism becomes so destructive to the
foundations of a free and independent people.
David Walker, who was the Comptroller General of the United States, in an
interview about two months before his 2008 resignation, said: "The problem is
that even though the deficits have come down for three years in a row, our
unfunded promises for Social Security and Medicare have risen dramatically. In
our total fiscal hole it is $53 trillion. That's $440,000 per household. So the
problem's not where we are, it's not where we've been. It's where we're headed
unless we end up making dramatic and fundamental reforms."
Since our Government claims that it can reestablish a sustainable economy
through health-care reform that will cut spending on Medicare, we the people,
who will be effected by this cost reduction in the health-care service that
Medicare provides, had better become concerned about our freedom for
alternative health care.
There is much in testimony that has been given that provides evidence that
natural herbs and food provide a better quality of life than can be obtained
through expensive drug prescriptions and treatment recommended by traditional
medicine. Because of the greed and corruption associated with the want for
money and the protection of large investments, such testimony has been ignored
in courts of law.
Health Bill
Do you support freedom of choice?
Do you support government functioning in a manner that the framers of the
constitution intended?
If so, then -
Your Support is needed for the following bills:
1) HR 3394 Freedom of Health Speech Act
2) HR 3395 Health Freedom Act
3) HR 3396 Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act
We urge you to contact your representatives (by phone, e-mail, and letter). Ask
them to put their full support behind these pieces of legislation.
To find your congressional representative, go to:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
or
http://www.congress.org
The links above will provide you with a contact site, phone numbers, and mailing
addresses. Please use all methods to contact your representative. Note that the
e-mail method is the least powerful form of communication.
Bill Descriptions
1) HR 3395 The Health Freedom Act.
This bill removes FDA’s power of prior restraint over all nutrient-disease
relationship claims. Under the bill, FDA may not prohibit any statement
concerning a nutrient affecting a disease (including treatment effects) from being
made in the market and may only act against a statement once made if it
possesses clear and convincing evidence that the statement is false.
Presently FDA blocks an enormous quantity of truthful information concerning the
effects of nutrients and foods on disease from reaching consumers. That barrier
is removed by the Health Freedom Act, but the Act preserves the power of the
government to prosecute those who communicate falsehood.
The essential purpose of the First Amendment is to disarm the federal
government of the power to impose a prior restraint on speech. The FDA has
imposed a prior restraint for decades to the health detriment of the public.
Passage of the Health Freedom Act will restore constitutional governance by
reasserting the supremacy of the First Amendment over the Food and Drug
Administration.
2) HR 3394 The Freedom of Health Speech Act.
This bill prevents the Federal Trade Commission from taking action against any
advertiser that communicates a health benefit for a product unless the FTC first
establishes based on clear and convincing evidence that the statement made is
false and that its communication causes harm to the public.
Presently, the FTC reverses the Fifth Amendment burden of proof on the
government when it charges advertisers with deceptive advertising and then
demands that they prove their speech true based on contemporaneously held
documentation or be deemed to have advertised deceptively.
The Fifth Amendment requires that FTC bear the burden of proving advertising
deceptive. It may not constitutionally shift the burden to the advertiser to prove its
statements not deceptive.
The First Amendment requires that FTC not act against speech unless the
speech is provably false. It may not constitutionally accuse a party of false
advertising yet lack proof that the advertising is false and condemn advertising
based on an absence of documentation concerning the truth of the statement
rather than the presence of evidence establishing the falsity of the statement.
3) HR 3396 The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act.
This bill prohibits regulations promulgated from regulatory agencies from going
into effect unless passed into law by Congress in the way in which the
Constitution designates.
Under Article I of the Constitution, the Congress of the United States, our elected
representatives, are the ones given the exclusive power to make laws. In violation
of the non-delegation doctrine, about 90% of all law created by the federal
government is the product of unelected heads of bureaucratic agencies, not our
elected representatives.
From 1934 to the present, the Congress of the United States has delegated
executive, legislative, and judicial governing power to these agencies. The
founding fathers warned that this combination would give birth to tyranny, self-
dealing, and corruption and would be the death of liberty. Because the unelected
bureaucracy makes the laws, the nation has been transformed from a republic
into a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Congressman Ron Paul’s Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act
restores constitutional government by returning to Congress the responsibility to
make laws, thereby making them once again accountable for the laws to those
who elect them.
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