Posted by John Tate on 10/25/09 2:05 PM Last updated 10/25/09 2:05 PM [Newer: Last Chance to Stop PelosiCare] [Older: Action Needed: Stop Senators from Selling Out Audit the Fed]

Campaign for Liberty believes it is time to reform the way health care is delivered in America. Years of ruinous government intervention, excessive regulation, and corporatism have damaged the patient-doctor relationship and driven up consumer costs.

The solution to our health care dilemma will not come from some grand scheme concocted by the same people who ran our economy into the ground and who continue to accumulate trillions of dollars in debt.

It will come from choosing freedom by ending government meddling in health care, protecting patient privacy, returning more of our hard-earned tax dollars to us, and ensuring the federal government does not block any information about alternative treatments.

Congressman Ron Paul, an OB-GYN who has delivered more than 4,000 babies, has introduced several pieces of legislation in Congress to bring true change to health care and to protect the American people from further government intrusion.

H.R. 2629, the Coercion is Not Health Care Act, stops government from taking even more of our money and railroading us into its health care scheme by preventing any individual or agency in the federal government from requiring anyone to purchase health insurance. H.R. 2629 also prohibits conditioning the receipt of any government benefit or participation in any government program on the purchase or maintenance of health insurance.

H.R. 1495, the Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2009, allows all Americans to pay their health care bills through the method that suits them best by providing all Americans with a tax credit for 100% of health care expenses (fully refundable against both income and payroll taxes), allowing individuals to roll over unused amounts in cafeteria plans and Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA), providing a tax credit for premiums for a high-deductible insurance policy connected with a Health Savings Account (HSA) and allowing seniors to use funds in an HSA to pay for a medigap policy, as well as making all medical expenses tax deductible by repealing the 7.5% threshold for the deduction of medical expenses.

H.R. 1498, the Freedom from Unnecessary Litigation Act of 2009, addresses rising medical malpractice costs by providing a tax credit for negative outcomes insurance purchased prior to medical treatment and by preventing medical malpractice awards obtained through binding arbitration from being taxed.

As Dr. Paul said in his speech introducing H.R. 1498, "Relying on negative outcomes insurance instead of litigation will also reduce the costs imposed on physicians, other health care providers, and hospitals by malpractice litigation."

H.R. 2630, the Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act, allows patients and physicians to opt-out of any government-mandated or -funded system of electronic health care records and repeals the federal law creating an "unique patient identifier." It also denies the use of federal funds to advance the use of standard unique health identifiers in any federal, state, or private health care plan.

H.R. 3394, the Freedom of Health Speech Act, requires the FTC to actually prove health care claims are false before preventing those claims from being made, and H.R. 3395, the Health Freedom Act, ends the FDA's attempts to censure truthful health claims.

These are just a few of steps Congressman Paul has taken in Congress to address the health care crisis.

Click here to get contact information for your representatives and urge them to support Dr. Paul's health care reform legislation.

And be sure to visit Dr. Paul's congressional website, where you can get information on all the legislation he has sponsored and cosponsored in the current Congress and several previous ones, read his speeches introducing his legislation and remarking on other efforts, and learn more about his work to restore respect for the Constitution in Washington.

The federal government has meddled in our health care affairs long enough. It's time to choose freedom.

It's time to make sure Americans can receive efficient, effective health care by unleashing the power of the free market.

Click here to contact Congress.

Posted 10/25/09 4:00 PM Tom Leser Melbourne, FL

There's 0 cosponsors on all of these bills. Should we be investing grassroots energy into these bills if no other representatives joined Dr. Paul in introducing these bills? I'll ask Congressman Posey to sign them, but it just doesn't look bright with zero consponsors on all of them. Also why couldn't all of these bills been covered in just one single bill? It's easier to push one bill for health care reform then a multitude of them.

Posted 10/25/09 4:48 PM jgmckinley Lynchburg, VA

I wrote my congressman about these bills. If anyone wants to use this as a template feel free. You will need to do some tweaking where necessary. http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=26811

Posted 10/25/09 5:16 PM Muaddib2 Tulsa, OK

Thank you Ron Paul for some logical health care reform! A lot of people that I have talked to have said that the one thing they still like about Obama is that he is trying to fix the health care problem. Most people dont investigate much more than what they are spoon fed on TV and radio and now I have something for those people to look into. A lot of the Obama supporters are starting to see through his disguise and a majority of the time they say that they only agree with him on the health care stuff.

Posted 10/25/09 5:19 PM BruceKoerber Cedar Rapids, IA

Question to the Campaign For Liberty: Since these are HR bills does it make any sense for me to contact my Senators?

Posted 10/25/09 7:41 PM Matt Hawes Springfield, VA

Sure! It would be great for a senator to introduce a companion piece to one or all of these bills. Matt

Posted 10/25/09 8:29 PM galtgulch Southborough, MA

I will endeavor to submit a resolution to the House of Delegates of the Massachusetts Medical Society for the Society to endorse each of these bills. There is an upcoming meeting of the MMS in early December. I think the deadline for submission of resolutions may have already passed but there is a way to submit late resolutions. Hard to say whether an endorsement from the MMS would actually increase the likelihood that other representatives will cosponsor any of these bills but it might. I am a physician still in practice despite my age and I am a delegate within the MMS House of Delegates. So I would have the opportunity to speak in favor of these bills too. It is truly hard to imagine where any of us would find hope these days if it weren't for the integrity and courage of Ron Paul.

Posted 10/25/09 10:53 PM Al Langhans Elizabethville, PA

Im liking HR 1495. Im sure the american people would love it too. I think I know why no politicians like it, giving taxes back isnt their passion in life.

Posted 10/26/09 10:58 AM redshirt Philadelphia, PA

congress.org . .. it's a fast way to reach all of your reps. (Fed and State) I do get occasional replies from my reps when I use congress.org. Not that they have anything to write that I agree with... spend, spend, spend, tax, tax, tax, and increase the size of the government. Blah.

Posted 10/26/09 2:21 PM Matt Hawes Springfield, VA

Tom, I think a similar argument can be made with these as was made with the audit bill. Although that had 11 cosponsors to begin with, it wouldn't have gotten anywhere if people hadn't started to contact Congress. If our members here will make calls, write emails, and send faxes in, I think we'll see those numbers go up. Given the current climate, some Republicans may be eager to jump on at least a few of these. As for it being combined into a single bill, again, with the current climate, it may be easier to build momentum on these separately. That's part of what's killing the administration right now. They're trying to throw all their eggs in one basket. Someone who may not be for the full reform Dr. Paul wants to see may possibly support his efforts to ease the medical malpractice situation, for example. Matt

Posted 10/27/09 06:47 AM LiberTater Lake Wales, FL

"ends the FDA's attempts to censure truthful health claims" should be "censor".