Health care in America remains the best in the world, and we Americans have been blessed by compassionate, dedicated, and highly skilled medical professionals and practitioners. However, in recent decades, the quality, availability, and especially affordability of medical care have declined, imposing unnecessary expense and suffering on the poor, the elderly, and those living on fixed incomes.

We staunchly believe and assert this decline has not been caused by patients, doctors, and institutions of care entering into free, informed, and responsible choices, as some would suggest. Rather it has been caused by the vast intrusions of government into the country’s health care systems. American medicine has become a massively regulated, subsidized, and centralized industry, resulting in structural distortions, misallocation of scarce resources, and bureaucratic impediments to the delivery of quality care. Therefore, in remonstrating against government-managed health care, we protest not only the proposals to broaden such government intrusions in the future, but also the government’s current policies which have contributed so materially to the crisis.

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