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Grandparents, Just Say No to Prescription Drug Subsidies

Excerpt: The President and GOP Congress are on the verge of the largest government intervention in the economy in nearly 40 years-- a leap toward socialized medicine that will seriously restrict choice in medicine for everyone-- and seniors, who are emphatically not being forced to choose between their medications and their meals, are the only ones with the power to stop it.

Medicare Bill is Prescription for Disaster

Excerpt: The stated reason for the plan is to provide Americans with medicines they could not otherwise afford. The Republicans don't ask why drugs are out of the reach of so many customers. Nor do they ask how those who cannot afford their own drugs will now be able to pay through new premiums for everyone else's drugs.

Health & Taxes Is Even Worse than Death & Taxes

Excerpt: A government that provides for all of your body's health care needs will ultimately think and act as if it owns your body. Those who are uncomfortable with that idea need to understand that they need to reject the illusion of government handouts, and demand the right to spend their own dollars-- free of tax-- to provide for their own lives and health.

Let's Keep Health Care Reform Simple

Excerpt: The status quo in American health care is indefensible -- an expensive regulatory and bureaucratic mess. What that calls for, however, is not more layers of regulation and complicated mandates. Nor should government take over health care completely and run it as part of a political spoils system.

Federal Health Board Is Hazardous to Your Health

Excerpt: [Senator] Baucus, former Senator Daschle and others have proposed the creation of a Federal Health Board to govern and ration all medical care in the United States. Such a board, we are told, would be independent from political influence, because its members would be appointed by the President of the United States. It would reduce the cost of medical care and insurance while providing everyone in the United States with all of the medical care they need or want. No new medications approved by the FDA as safe and effective, no new medical devices, no new care facilities or medical and nursing schools will be allowed without the final approval of this board.

Health Care-- a Right or a Privilege?

Excerpt: [T]he striking grocery employees have declared, by a 97 percent vote, that they are born with a right to health care -- funded by the business that hired them.