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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).

..::: LATEST COMMENTARY

Asking the Government for Permission to Live

The Food and Drug Administration has gone to court to prevent the Colorado-based firm Regenerative Sciences from using stem cells developed in one part of your body (bone marrow) to repair damage in other parts of your body, such as joints. . . . [ full article ]

Individualism Is the Foundation for Medical Care

There is a great threat to medical care in America from a small group of our fellow citizens. They are not the top one percent of the wealthy, but a group of elitists and their allies who see government power as the means to determine what every American is allowed to earn and keep. Control over medical care is central to their objective of imposing control over every detail of our lives. . . . [ full article ]

Supreme Court Must Rule Against Insurance Mandate

On March 26, when the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's mandate that everyone buy health insurance or pay a penalty, it must do so from the context of an individual's right to be left alone. The court must disregard the spurious causal connections cited in an attempt to reify non-action into an act of force and a violation of rights when a person refrains from buying a health plan. It must also recognize that the intent of the Constitution's interstate commerce clause is to guard against punitive regulations imposed under the guise of some socio-economic "greater good." . . . [ full article ]

Doctors Town Hall Meeting
Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa Hotel, May 14, 2011

Art Astorino Cristina Rizza

WATCH VIDEO

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

WATCH VIDEO

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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