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August 12, 2011
U.S. district court declares Affordable Care Act's individual mandate unconstitutional.
View the Memorandum Opinion of the Court (PDF)
June 24, 2011
AFCM signed on as part of another brief amicus curiae, in support of the plaintiffs in the State of Florida, et al., vs. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Brief (PDF)
January 31, 2011
U.S. district court declares health care law unconstitutional.
View the Memorandum Opinion of the Court (PDF)
December 13, 2010
U.S. district court strikes down mandatory insurance provision of health care law.
View the Memorandum Opinion of the Court (PDF)
October 4, 2010
AFCM and Pacific Legal Foundation signed on as "friends of the court" in support of Virginia's civil action against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. View the documents in PDF:
Motion | Brief
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 American Health Care: Essential Principles and Common Fallacies
This essay provides a brief guide to the essential political, economic and moral principles on which all health policy must be based. There is a special emphasis on the role of unique American values in maintaining these principles.
Also included are many common fallacies about American health care that are often used to confuse and obstruct a proper approach to medical care. Facts and reasoned arguments are provided as tools to help prevent these fallacies from damaging the system of medical care required in a free society. [ continue ]
Health Care in California
 AFCM is dedicated to an unequivocal moral defense of capitalism and individual rights in America's great state of California. Read AFCM's commentary on issues directly concerning California—and ultimately the entire country. [ continue ]
 Health Care Is Not a Right
Watch the entire lecture delivered by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D., at a Town Hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California. [ watch video ]
Alternate formats:
Read the lecture on this site, or download a PDF suitable for printing (requires Adobe® Reader).
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..::: LATEST COMMENTARY
There is an unstated context behind the health care debate. Those who prefer government management of medicine have a wider agenda: they hate the idea of a free market in medicine because they hate the idea of free markets in anything. . . . [ full article ]
On August 18, the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found the Affordable Care Act's mandatory insurance provision unconstitutional by a vote of 2-1. The dissenting judge, Stanley Marcus, while maintaining that the mandate for Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty is constitutional, went further to commend Congress for addressing the "substantial economic problem" of "cost shifting." . . . [ full article ]
There was a bit of an uproar recently when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced, then withdrew, a plan to hire your fellow citizens to pose as patients seeking appointments with thousands of medical practices, using a script of false symptoms-alternately pretending to have private insurance and Medicare. . . . [ full article ]
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Doctors Town Hall Meeting
Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa Hotel, May 14, 2011
 
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Redeeming Reform: What Health Care Reform Could Be and Ought to Be
A Joint Briefing at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., May 10, 2010
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Joint Defense of Freedom in American Medicine
A Joint Briefing at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., September 19, 2009
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Learn the facts and join the fight to free health care from a government takeover.
Fallacy #1: "The quality of health care in America is ranked lower than 36 other countries."
Fallacy #2: "Medicare and Medicaid are far more efficient and less wasteful than private insurance, spending only three percent on administrative overhead."
Fallacy #3: "Government or universities develop most new medications and then just hand them over to pharmaceutical companies to manufacture and make all the profits."
Fallacy #4: "Advertising of drugs is bad because it increases the price of medications."
Fallacy #5: "Private corporations are wasteful and bloated bureaucracies. Government-provided health care is lean and efficient."
Read the right responses to those claims and others:
Fifty Fallacies About Health Care |
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