Understanding Health Freedom and its Policy Imperatives

Defining Health Freedom

Health freedom refers to the right of every American to make decisions about their own medical interventions. It includes the right to choose what to put into or onto one's body, the right to access and use the medical and healing modalities of one's choice, the right to maintain one's health according to one's conscience, and the right to live free of involuntary medication, whether it's through the food supply, the water supply, or something airborne.

The Importance of Health Freedom

Health freedom is not a mere convenience in a free and moral society, it is a necessity. In the event of injury or illness, every American should have the absolute right to choose their medical interventions and treatments. They should be free to choose how to maintain their health, whether through nutrition, supplements, herbs, drugs, or various healing modalities. They should also have access to truthful information about how the food in our supply has been grown, developed, medicated, processed, and packaged. Moreover, Americans have the right to live in a society free of water and airborne medications, insect vectors, and chemicals.

The Prerequisite for Health Freedom

Health freedom can only exist in a society that values each and every member. This prerequisite excludes any form of medical mandates. It is immoral to force another individual to risk their life for the theoretical benefit of another. Furthermore, the government does not have the moral authority or power to dictate what medical products an American puts into or onto their body. If anyone in the government does possess that power, then no American is truly free, and they do not possess any meaningful rights – they are merely property.

Policy Shifts for True Health Freedom

To create a society based on true health freedom, certain policy shifts need to be implemented. These proposals address some of the most glaring, harmful anti-liberty and anti-health aspects of our current system:

Prohibit all Medical Mandates

Medical mandates are prima facie violations of our founding documents. Health freedom demands voluntary informed consent before a medical treatment or intervention is administered. Therefore, medical mandates, which are by definition antithetical to voluntary consent, must be prohibited in a free and moral society.

Repeal the Bayh-Dole Act

The Bayh-Dole Act allows universities, nonprofit research institutions, and small businesses to own, patent, and commercialize inventions developed under federally funded research programs. However, this Act has realigned the interests of taxpayer-funded scientists away from the American people and towards their own interests and profits.

Repeal the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) of 1992

PDUFA authorizes the FDA to collect user fees from persons that submit certain human drug applications for review. As a result, the FDA has a vested interest aligned with the profits and success of the pharmaceutical industry rather than the health and well-being of the American people.

Repeal the Public Readiness and Preparedness Act (PREP Act)

The PREP Act provides immunity from liability for claims related to the administration or use of countermeasures to diseases, threats, and conditions. This Act desecrates the ethical principle of informed consent and must be repealed.

Repeal the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act anchors Americans to the pharmaceutical and drug-based medical paradigm. Instead, a health savings program should be implemented which allows Americans to access the health and medical modalities of their choice.

Repeal the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA)

NCVIA shields vaccine makers from liability, creating a perverse incentive for the industry to develop a never-ending stream of vaccines which are then mandated by the states. This Act also protects industry and vaccine programs by creating a separate administrative federal court structure lacking due process and discovery.

Prohibit Private Donations to Government Entities

Private individuals, foundations, corporations, contractors, and any other person or entity should be prohibited from donating or giving money to any agency or entity of the federal government. This would prevent the interests of the agency from being skewed in favor of these private actors and away from the American public.

Enact a Cooling-off Period for Senior Federal Employees

A 5-year cooling-off period should be enacted before agency leadership, deputies, and other key officials may depart federal agencies to enter the companies they regulate in the private sector.

Prevent Conflicts of Interest

Conflict-of-interest waivers should be eliminated so that no person serving on a health agency committee, board, or other regulatory entity may have a conflict of interest. Individuals with financial or ideological conflicts of interest should not serve as decision-makers in any capacity.

Prohibit Government Grants to Nonprofits

Government should be prohibited from allocating taxpayer dollars to nonprofit. Nonprofits exist to serve the public interests and should be funded directly by American citizens.

Ban Water Fluoridation

Water fluoridation programs are not only dangerous from a health standpoint, they are forced medication in violation of the ethical principle of informed consent.

Ban Release of Genetically Modified Insects

State governments should not collaborate with private business to release genetically modified mosquitoes into communities. This amounts to a form of forced medication absent any form of consent and must be ended.

Bottom Line

These recommendations are necessary first steps to correct the disastrous health policy environment that currently exists in the United States and to restore true health freedom. This would allow all Americans to decide what medical interventions to allow into or onto their bodies, which health and medical modalities to utilize in maintaining their health, and the ability to live free of involuntary medication. What are your thoughts on these policy shifts? Do you think they would lead to a healthier, freer society? Share this article with your friends and sign up for the Daily Briefing, every day at 6pm.