The Medical Freedom Channel

“1. States should make sure consumers have ready access to health education and consumer information. A patient power approach works only when consumers have access to sufficient information to make intelligent choices. State health education programs (including high school curricula) should emphasize personal responsibility for important lifestyle choices…. 2. States should roll back costly health insurance mandates. Currently the 50 states enforce more than 1,500 mandates on insurance policies, covering such matters as pregnancy, mental healthy parity, substance abuse, and acupuncture. Consumers ought to be allowed to buy low-cost basic policies, and add riders for additional coverage, just as they do with auto insurance…. 3. States should allow the sale of low-cost basic coverage insurance policies that do not include cost-inflating mandates. …” (03/01/2003)