America's Health Care Crisis

By Dr. Evelyn Higgins

Benjamin Rush MD, a Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer, stated: "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privilege to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are UN-American and despotic and have no place in a republic. The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."

Over 200 years later, we are living what Dr. Rush envisioned. We must adhere to a dictatorship - a failing one at that. The answers to our health care conundrum lie in freedom of choice - freedom, which rewards all of us personally as well as nationally. The answers are there; however, they require honest politics, dissemination of information free of censorship, closing of the revolving door between the FDA and Big Pharma, education, and the rewarding of positive lifestyle behaviors by each and every American who are willing to restore health to the USA. Over the next several months, I will be proposing an action item a week to reverse our current health care crisis. Stay tuned... [more...]