Doctors Publish "Inalienable Rights Infringement Statement" on Health Care Reform Bills

Aug. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine today issued an "Inalienable Rights Infringement Statement" ("IRIS") on the health care bills now brewing in Washington--bills they dubbed "PelosiObamaReidCare" ("PORC").

The IRIS, posted on the homepage of Doctors on Strike's website at http://www.doctorsonstrike.com, cites PORC for the following 10 violations of individual rights:

1. Forcing people to buy health insurance.

2. Forcing employers to provide health insurance for employees.

3. Forcing one group (wealthy, soda-drinkers, etc.) to pay for the health insurance of another group.

4. Forcing future generations to pay for the healthcare of the present generation.

5. Forcing patients to participate in a government-run plan.

6. Forcing doctors to participate in a government-run plan.

7. Forcing hospitals and other healthcare providers to participate in a government-run plan.

8. Forcing insurance companies to compete with a government-run plan.

9. Forcing insurance companies to write policies that offer coverage for specific conditions.

10. Forcing one group (older Americans on Medicare) to accept reduced benefits in order to fund other public health care plans.

Dr. Gregory Garamoni, Founder and Executive Director of Doctors on Strike, said, "Doctors, patients, and business owners all have the same inalienable individual rights recognized by the Declaration of Independence - the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The purpose of government is to secure our rights, not violate them.  Our rights impose limitations on government."  

Dr. Garamoni said, "PORC's unprecedented intrusiveness into the doctor-patient relationship and other aspects of our health care would violate our rights on a massive scale unknown in the history of America."

Doctors on Strike urges doctors, patients, and business owners to work together to put intense political pressure on Washington politicians to make sure they protect individual rights while reforming the healthcare system.  Dr. Garamoni said people need to send the following message to our elected officials:  

"Earth to politicians: Healthcare is not a right, doctors are not your slaves, businesses are not your banks, the wealthy are not your wet nurses, and patients are not your pawns."

The website for Doctors on Strike (http://www.doctorsonstrike.com) provides doctors, patients, and business owners with the "intellectual and political ammunition necessary to win the war against statism in medicine."  

Activists will find links to an online "Petition to Protect Doctor-Patient Rights" and other petitions with similar messages.  They will also find links to elected officials, including the influential "The Blue Dog Coalition,"  and sample messages of varying length.

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Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine (http://www.doctorsonstrike.com) has the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting freedom in healthcare. Our organization’s most pressing goal is to defeat HR3200 and other statist healthcare reform proposals now circulating in Washington. To this end, we are encouraging doctors and patients to put intense political pressure on legislators during their deliberations on healthcare reform. We supply doctors and patients with the intellectual and political ammunition to do this. We are calling on doctors to be prepared to go on strike against more government-run healthcare. We want doctors to let the country know - now - that if the President signs any legislation that establishes another government healthcare plan, they will "go on strike": Doctors will refuse to participate in any new government healthcare plan, and they will resign from all government healthcare programs, including, but not limited to Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE.