Medical Freedom Warning of Benjamin Rush

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Origins of Medical Liberty“Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship . . . to restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to 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.â€

-- Founding Father, Dr. Benjamin Rush on Medical Freedom

 

 

In 1787, Dr. Benjamin Rush, America’s most respected physician of his time, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, sought to have the protection of “medical freedom†inserted into the U.S. Constitution. Without it, he warned with prescience, we could some day see medicine become “... an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.â€

 

Today, some who see the health care systems of Canada and Cuba as models, seek to stealthily impose upon Americans, state by state, a one-size-fits-all mandatory health care dictatorship. Under the guise of “universal coverage,†some would have a system that forces everyone into a single plan — and precludes the right of a person to seek or purchase health care services outside of that system. In the name of “universal coverageâ€, they would usurp the individual’s control over one’s own health care.

 

It is not too late to heed Dr. Rush’s warning. With “The Health Freedom Actâ€, we have the opportunity to insert medical freedom into our constitution — the Wyoming Constitution. And, if we are successful, we can start a movement to insert medical freedom into the constitution of every state — state by state — and thus protect Americans from eventual medical tyranny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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