James Madison, Federalist Papers #45:

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.” 

U.S. Constitution, 10th Amendment: 

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” 

The Constitution Party opposes the governmentalization and bureaucratization of American medicine. The States gave no constitutional authority to the federal government to control healthcare at any level.

Government regulation and subsidy constitute a threat to both the quality and availability of patient-oriented health care and treatment. 

Hospitals, doctors, and other health care providers should be accountable to patients, not to politicians, insurance bureaucrats, or HMO Administrators. 

If the supply of medical care is controlled by the federal government, then officers of that government will determine which demand is satisfied. The result will be the rationing of services, higher costs, poorer results, and the power of life and death transferred from caring physicians to unaccountable political overseers. 

We denounce any civil government entity’s using age or any other personal characteristic to: 

• Preclude people and insurance firms from freely contracting for medical coverage; 
• Conscript people into socialized medicine, e.g., Medicare; or prohibit these people from using insurance payments and/or their own money to obtain medical services in addition to, or to augment the quality of, those services prescribed by the program. 

We applaud proposals for employee-controlled “family coverage” health insurance plans based on cash value life insurance principles. 

The federal government has no Constitutional provision to regulate or restrict the freedom of the people to have access to medical care, supplies or treatments. 

We advocate for the elimination of the federal Food and Drug Administration, as it has been the federal agency primarily responsible for prohibiting beneficial products, treatments, and technologies here in the United States that are freely available in much of the rest of the civilized world. 

People have a right to buy any food product they wish, including raw milk, raw honey, and organic animal products, etc. without government approval. 

We affirm the freedom of choice for practitioners and treatment for all citizens for their healthcare. 

We support the right of patients to seek redress of their grievances through the courts against insurers and/or HMO’s. 

We condemn the misrepresentations made by the Federal Administration in securing the passage of the recently enacted Medicare prescription drug bill and the use of such legislation to secure government subsidies for special interests, such as HMOs, and to protect the artificially high cost to consumers of prescription drugs. 

We stand against any federal or state health insurance mandates:

• We call for an end to collusion between Big Pharma and the FDA and CDC, and all emergency powers that were illegally claimed by State and Federal Agencies to dictate lockdowns, masks, and vaccines in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. 
• We oppose all vaccine mandates and forced quarantine of citizens, including military personnel, as a violation of each individual’s right to personal liberty and control over what is taken into their body.

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