HMO & Health Care Reform @ Stanley for U.S. Senate 2002 Colorado

Rick supports the right to sue HMOs and insurers, but opposes the government's regulation of the health care industry. Several studies have shown that the Patient's Bill of Rights requires private insurance companies to raise premiums, further preventing middle and lower income earners from purchasing the medical insurance they need. He opposes the creation of a national health care system.

Rick wants to abolish federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We advocate abolishing the Federal Health and Human Services Department.

Any health issues that the federal government currently interferes with, should be dealt with by the states or left up to the Individual.

Links to more information about
HMO and Healthcare Reform

Party Platform on Health Care
From the National Libertarian Party
http://www.lp.org/issues/platform/healcare.html

Ask Dr. Ruwart: About Health Care for the Poor
From Dr. Mary Ruwart and
The Advocates for Self-Government
http://www.self-gov.org/ruwart/q0066.html

Quotes about Health Care

"If just one drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development."

- William Wardell