Don’t forget the rally on Thursday!
Don’t forget the Rally on Thursday against socialized medicine -
~ Health Care Rally Speakers ~
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TWILA BRASE, RN, PHN, Public Health Nurse Twila Brase is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), a free-market, health care policy organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 2000, the Minnesota Physician magazine selected her as one of “Minnesota’s 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders.” Her organization’s efforts have led to the 2006 expiration of government- issued medical treatment directives, the governor’s 2008 veto of a “Baby DNA Warehouse” bill, informed consent requirements for access to medical data, the 2007 and 2008 defeat of the proposed Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange, and the 2009 defeat of legislation to repeal genetic privacy and informed consent rights over government storage and research on newborn DNA. |
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SALLY C. PIPES Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank founded in 1979. An expert in the Canadian and American health systems, Ms. Pipes writes, speaks, debates and gives invited testimony on key health care issues facing America. She is the author of The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care a Citizen’s Guide and Miracle Cure: How to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn’t the Answer, in addition to numerous op-eds, TV, and radio appearances. |
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DAVID A. NOEBEL David A. Noebel, president of Summit Ministries, has been a college professor, college president and candidate for the U.S. Congress. He is an author, editor, public speaker, and ordained minister. He is recognized as an expert on worldview analysis and the decline of morality and spirituality in Western Civilization. Noebel also serves as editor of the ministry’s publication The Journal, a monthly review of the news. He travels worldwide lecturing in high schools, universities, and churches. He is a member of the Council for National Policy, the National Association of Scholars, the American Philosophical Association, and the Society of Christian Philosophers. Noebel was a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He holds a B.A. from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and a M.A. from the University of Tulsa. David and his wife Alice, live in Manitou Springs, Colorado. They have two children and five grandchildren. |
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JANE M. ORIENT, M.D., F.A.C.P. Jane M. Orient obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. She completed an internal medicine residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She has been in solo private practice since 1981 and has served as Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989. She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare, Sutton’s Law (a novel about where the money is in medicine today), and the second and third editions of Sapira’s Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis. She is the editor of AAPS News, the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter, and Civil Defense Perspectives, and is the managing editor of The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. |
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DR. ALLEN D. UNRUH Dr. Unruh has been in full time practice since 1970. He spear-headed the “Free Choice Initiative” while he was president of the SDCA to combat discriminatory practice in managed care. Dr. Unruh was on the Physician’s advisory council and appointed “Physician of the Year” by the National Republican Congressional Committee. A former candidate for the U.S. Congress, he’s been the State chairman for two candidates for President of the United States. Dr. Unruh is currently the National Chairman of the grassroots “Stop Government Controlled Health Care Campaign” throughout America. Dr. Unruh has been a featured speaker at the National Reclaiming America conference in St. Petersburg Fla. He is the author of “Why Government Health Care Doesn’t Work”, “If the Government Doesn’t Get off Our Backs, The Whole Country Will Need a Chiropractor” and “Laughter Is the Best Medicine.” He and his wife, Leslee, have formed a national “Speak Up” to address the cultural issues and speaking on Basic Americanism. |
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DR. R. BLAKE CURD
R. Blake Curd, M.D. is a Hand, Microvascular, and Orthopedic Surgeon in private practice at the Orthopedic Institute in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dr. Curd is a tireless spokesman and advocate for a patient’s right to make the health care decisions they deem in their own best interest. He also has been intimately involved in the ongoing political debate about who should assist patients in these decisions-a physician/health care provider or the insurance industry and government. Dr. Curd is Chairman of the Board and President of Surgical Management Professionals (SMP.) SMP is a physician owned company that assists physicians in the design, build, management, and equity investment of physician owned ambulatory surgical centers and physician owned hospitals. Dr. Curd is currently the Treasurer of Physician Hospitals of America, the trade organization representing the physician owned hospital industry. PHA is a staunch advocate for the rights of physicians to control all aspects of health care delivery and is an ever-present advocate in Washington, DC. Dr. Curd is a frequent guest lecturer and speaks locally, regionally, and nationally on his profession of Hand and Microvascular Surgery. He has lectured and performed surgery on five continents. His expertise is also called on regularly to engage in the debate on healthcare reform, physician ownership in healthcare, and physician rights. Dr. Curd makes multiple trips to Washington DC each year to assist in advocating to Congress and the Administration in these areas. |
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Richard Baker In 2003, Richard baker founded Timely Medical Alternatives, an organization which he likens to a Freedom Train, sending thousands of Canadians to the U.S. for life saving surgical procedures. The very existence of this organization speaks volumes about the failure of socialized medicine. Richard has become one of the leading spokespeople for free-market reform of Canada’s dysfunctional, single payer healthcare system. As such, he is often called upon for media interviews and speaking engagements throughout North America. He has been interviewed by ABC TV’s 20/20 program, Dan Rather Reports, Jerry Agar on WABC radio, The Mike Gallagher Show, NPR Radio, and U.S. News & World Report. |
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Comments
John, I think it’s funny you think were supposed to get a better health care system from the government! The Medicare, VA, American Indian Health jokes aren’t that funny and they sure aren’t better. I’m guessing you’re imagining…’I'm going to have health care just like Obama, wheeee!’
Why aren’t these events during the weekend, at night, ie. not in the middle of the day!? You might get a better turn out. Just a thought!
You’re absolutely right Guy, the turnout would be much higher if the event wasn’t during regular working hours.
As a general rule, it’s best not to criticize unless you have an alternative idea. So I ask anyone: what’s the Republicans’ proposal for health care reform? Tax cuts? Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that the Republican solution to health care reform is to just not do health care reform.
The main problem with our health system is the outrageous costs. The health insurance market is highly monopolized in most areas. The DOJ lists a market has “highly concentrated” when one company holds 42% or more of a market share. In many states, health insurance companies hold 80% or more of the market! In fact, the AMA lists 94% of health insurance markets in the U.S. as being highly concentrated.
What is needed is competition, something I thought conservatives were for. When the insurance market is monopolized, the giants are able to buy out any competition, and raise prices as they see fit. That’s one reason why I think a public option, which insurance companies can’t buy out, will reduce overall prices.
If Republicans have a better way to reduce prices, let’s here it. A public option is just one way. But until then, quit protesting, and start thinking of one.
John and all you free loaders move to Canada. I bet you will be back because Gov run healthcare sucks. You want some clown in DC deciding your healthcare? When you get back from Canada I bet PP would let you report on your findings.
Thanks to all who had a hand in putting this on. We need to save our healthcare!
John maybe you could report from Canada while you are up there, you will have plenty of time while you are waiting in line to see a Dr.
I have an excellent plan, involving patient follow-up to insure proper care of ailment, mediation between doctors and patients to get rid of most malpractice awards and a reduction in medical/insurance costs due to torte reform and unecessary medical visits.
But, Braden, I’m sure you won’t let that stop you from pushing failed and unthoughtful policies.
“You want some clown in DC deciding your healthcare?”
No, I’d rather have a clown in Connecticut deciding for me. Even worse, this bureaucrat is trying to profit off my health.
“I bet you will be back because Gov run healthcare sucks.”
First off, this isn’t gov’t run health care, it’s simply another option. And government run health care does have its problems, true, like ours doesn’t?? Have you ever asked yourself, if single-payer is so terrible, why has no country that has adopted it ever gone back to a soley private system?
Braden, why don’t you take a trip and visit some of these countries, check out there health care system. While your at it check out there other freedoms, or lack there of.
Dr. Curd is the latest rock star in the GOP, according to my granddaughter.
But this Allen Unruh…he’s ACTUALLY a doctor? I always thought the Dr. title was for some sort of honorary title, or maybe he had a paper-mill doctorate or something.
I’m over 65 and on MEDICARE, as a government run medical insurance program it seems to be pretty good. When I was in the military I guess you would call the medical care socialized medicine. I didn’t have many options but again it seemed to work pretty good. I think the public option has real merit.
regardless of whether it’s good or bad for the country, gov’t health care is unconstitutional. where in the constitution gives the federal government authority to enact such a program?
GeneK, i don’t doubt your positive experiences, but all we ever hear about the government health care programs is how they’re underfunded and going broke. they’re unsustainable, while giving the government an unfair advantage against the private options.
I would suggest to anyone who wants to learn more about our state of health care in America to go and listen to Dr. Curd on Thursday if you can. A leader in the discussion on balancing our State budget and a solid thinker who has an amazing vocabulary. Dr. Curd is one of those few intellectuals who can put forth synapses of important events into very understandable pictures. He was actually one of the few legislators who understood exactly what the stimulus money would do to our future State budget.
Take pictures! Get some pictures from as far up as you can go. Send them to the paper and T.V. stations. The crowds may not be in the thousands, but it sure will be more than were ‘talking’ to Johnson and Herseth, yesterday!
BTW, How is the government paying for this when all of the states can’t make budget and the nation can’t make due with what they have!?!?
Isn’t ALLEN D. UNRUH just a back cracker? Can’t we find some people that are really in the medical field to speak?
I beg to differ about the VA and Medicare. My dad got very good service from the VA and later Medicare. My mom did as well. Maybe we should get rid of those two programs and let veterans and seniors go into the marketplace to find docs and pay for it too.
dakotadad, the VA and medicare are unsustainable. one is underfunded and the other broke. (though, i would argue that health care for our soldiers ought to be sustained, somehow.)
the private sector provider options are almost always better than the government provider options.
one anecdote i can share: i do medical recruiting, and can tell you that if it weren’t for the beautiful weather, beaches, and ocean/gulf, we would never be able to recruit providers to florida. that’s because the providers there get paid much less, because of all the people who have retired to florida, utilizing medicare.
I tell you, I AM going to that rally on July 2!
I am think that with all those nurses and doctors that are supposed to be there, maybe I can find someone that can help me with my gout!
“Braden, why don’t you take a trip and visit some of these countries, check out there health care system.”
I’ve been to Canada many times and know a few Canadians, never heard any of them complain. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there are a few problems, but there has to be a reason why no country which has adopted single payer has switched back.
“While your at it check out there other freedoms, or lack there of.”
Ha! You’re right, the Canadian and Swedish regimes are SO oppressive.
When you ride a bike it’s hard to explain the importance of a SUV. I can get from here to there….I can carry my groceries in my basket…
“It’s not gout. It’s your brain traveling back from your a$$.”
Gosh Guy Smylie! Your getting as mean as Sibby!
LOL
So those people don’t want us to have a better health care system? Shame on them.
And does anyone else think it’s funny that they have Allen Unruh giving “medical advice”? Personally, I wouldn’t trust him with my medical care.