Constitution Party on Health Care

	Constitution Party on Health Care

Eliminate the Food and Drug Administration

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, therefore, 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. Source: Constitution Party Platform at 2020 Convention , May 2, 2020

Freedom of choice, not government rationing of services

Hospitals, doctors & 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 affirm freedom of choice of practitioner and treatment for all citizens for their health care. We support the right of patients to seek redress of their grievances through the courts against insurers & HMOs. We condemn the misrepresentations made by the Administration in securing passage of the recently enacted Medicare prescription drug bill and the use of such legislation to secure government subsidies to special interests such as the HMOs, and to protect the artificially high cost to consumers of prescription drugs. Source: 2012-2016 Constitution Party national platform , Nov 1, 2012

Opposes the governmentalization of American medicine

The Constitution Party opposes the governmentalization and bureaucratization of American medicine. Government regulation and subsidy constitutes 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. Source: Constitution Party platform ratified at National Convention , Apr 26, 2008

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