I am posting this message and conducting this poll because we have a shared interest in protecting the rights of doctors and patients as Washington politicians are poised to inject a lethal dose of statism into the heart of our healthcare system — an industry already clogged with more government control than any others. This massive dose of statism will induce grave waves of arrhythmia — inflation, price controls, doctor shortages, waiting periods, and rationing.
Something has to be done soon halt to this leftist-led, lemming-like leap into the sordid sea of statism.
Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine is a private, nonprofit, educational, and partisan-activist organization that I founded on July 4, 2009 to take on the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting freedom in healthcare in the United States of America. Doctors on Strike is based on the principles recognized and published in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence for Doctors:
That doctors and patients have the same inalienable individual rights that all citizens have — the right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness;
That the purpose of government is to secure individual rights, not violate them;
That individual rights impose limitations on government;
That statism in healthcare violates individual rights;
That the statist healthcare proposals being advanced by the Administration and Congress would violate individual rights and gravely threaten the viability of the healthcare system;
That doctors, patients, and elected officials need to act — now — to preserve, protect, and promote individual rights and freedom in medicine.
Our long-term educational objective is to supply doctors and healthcare providers with the intellectual ammunition required to win the “philosophical war” against statism in medicine. We provide doctors and other healthcare providers with a principled, vigorous defense of freedom in medicine based a philosophy of rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez faire capitalism.
What sets Doctors on Strike apart from fine nonpartisan organizations is that we are an activist organization that can and will “take the gloves off” to take on public officials without having to worry about our tax-exempt status being revoked. This allows us the freedom to publish pointedly partisan pieces here that can’t found elsewhere. We try to strike an acceptable balance between the need for objectivity in thought and the need for passion in action. Our ideal is to be passionately reasonable and reasonable passionate.
Our most pressing goal for 2009 is to help defeat the statist healthcare reform proposals presently circulating through Washington. To this end, Doctors on Strike is actively encouraging doctors and patients to put intense political pressure on legislators during their deliberations on health care reform. And we provide the political ammunition to do this.
Our website provides convenient ways to communicate our message to legislators. We provide links to the contact information on every senator and representative. We just added a special page devoted to the 51 members of the Blue Dog Coalition–a unique resource not found anywhere else on the web. We supply sample messages that can be copied, pasted, modified, and communicated to legislators over the phone or by email, fax, or mail. The messages vary in length from once sentence to several paragraphs to suit the preferences of a diverse group of doctors and patients. The core message is the same: We demand that Congress and the Administration respect the right of doctors and patients to make private healthcare decisions without any governmental interference.
I invite you to go to our Political Ammunition page see for yourself how easy we have made it for voters to tell Congress how important it is to protect freedom in healthcare. If you have not yet made your views known to your senators and representative, why not do this now? See just how easy it is and then let others know too.
We are also calling on doctors to prepare themselves to go on strike against any more government-run healthcare programs. We are calling on doctors to let the country know now that if the President signs into law any legislation that establishes another government healthcare plan, doctors will refuse to participate in any such plan, and will stop participating in all other government healthcare programs, including, but not limited to Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE.
As the 2010 election cycle approaches, we will identify and work openly to support those candidates for elected offices at the state and federal level who champion individual rights and liberty in healthcare. We will also unhesitatingly identify and publicly target for defeat any candidates for elected offices who support statist public policies that violate individual rights and infringe on liberty in healthcare. We just created a page on our website, “Targeted for Defeat in 2010,” with this goal in mind.
I am pleased to report that since we launched our website on July 4th, we have been visited by people from 468 cities in 28 countries around the world, including 49 of the 50 states in America. Our message is getting through to people interested in protecting individual rights in healthcare. But we have a lot more work to do.
This is our war–one we cannot afford to loose. We can be allies. I am contributing some intellectual and political ammunition. I am asking for your support by spreading the word about our organization and our message.
I would welcome your advice and support.
And I’m eager to see the results of this poll!
Dr. Gregory L. Garamoni
Licensed Psychologist
Founder & Executive Director,
Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
904-631-3939
