Patient Advocacy Groups Urge Greater Focus on Patients’ Choice and Privacy Rights in Health-Reform Debate While Congressional debate is focused primarily on whether to include a public option for health insurance, many Americans remain concerned about how a mandate for private health insurance will affect their health-care choices and privacy... (continue reading)

Health-Insurance Mandate Could Lead to National ID and Loss of Privacy Americans’ privacy depends critically on whether Congress mandates insurance for individuals. Mandatory coverage is under serious consideration and deserves the thoughtful attention of every citizen. From a health-freedom advocate’s perspective, an individual mandate poses serious threats to privacy. Here’s why: Once government has the legal authority to compel individuals to buy health insurance, it will have an incentive to assign them ID numbers with which to monitor compliance with the program... (continue reading)

Three Health-Freedom Bills Introduced in Congress U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has introduced three health-freedom bills to ensure Americans’ freedom of choice in health insurance and health privacy rights... (continue reading)