Thursday, June 3, 2010

AFCM: What Health Care Reform Could Be and Ought to Be

Americans for Free Choice in Medicine has now posted video of its May 10, 2010 symposium, "Redeeming Reform: What Health Care Reform Could Be and Ought to Be".

The speakers for their joint briefing include:

Part 1
Introduction
Richard E. Ralston, Executive Director
Americans for Free Choice in Medicine

"The Constitutional Context for Health Care Reform"
Robert McNamara, Staff Attorney
Institute for Justice

"Federalism and Health Reform: Unhealthy States"
John R. Graham, Director, Health Care Studies
Pacific Research Institute

"A New Congress Will Have Opportunity to Reform, Not Deform, the Malfunctioning U.S. Health Care System"
Sue Blevins, M.P.H., M.S., Founder and President
Institute for Health Freedom
Part 2
"Morality — Not Costs — As the Proper Basis for Health Care Reform"
John David Lewis, Ph.D.
Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, Duke University

Question Period
Part 3
"Loss of Freedom and Privacy in the Age of Corporate-State Medicine
Michael Ostrolenk, M.A., MFT, Public Policy Counsel
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

"Selfishness at the Microscope: Your Diagnosis or Your Life"
Mark Hurt, M.D., Director
Americans for Free Choice in Medicine

"Better Access to Promising Developmental Drugs and Vaccines"
Frank Burroughs, President and Founder
Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs
Part 4
"You Are Not Your Neighbor's Health Care Provider"
Yaron Brook, Ph.D., President
Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

Question Period
Click here to watch their talks.