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..::: NEWS RELEASE
..::: OCTOBER 16, 2003
Grocery Strike Is Wrong—Health Care Is Not a Right
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA—The Southern California grocery strike, which seeks to
establish health care as a right, is profoundly wrong, according to an
op-ed released by California-based Americans for Free Choice in Medicine
(AFCM).
"Health expenditures have been escalating for years,
but employers have typically resisted holding workers accountable to
higher prices," AFCM contends. "America's employers are finally
acknowledging the limits of employer-based, cradle-to grave health care
coverage. They are realizing that health insurance, like auto, home and
life insurance, must bear some relation to the individual—that the
insured must pay for the insurance."
"Each person is primarily responsible for his or her
own health care," AFCM insists. "Benefits are extended at the discretion
of the business, which has no moral obligation to pay for anything but
the cost of doing business—which may include covering part of
workers' health costs. It is the employer's right to choose its terms of
employment and it is the employee's right to decide with whom he or she
is employed."
"L.A.'s grocery strike offers a stark contrast
between socialism, which is based upon dependence on others, and
capitalism, which is based upon self-reliance and independence," AFCM
concludes.
Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, (AFCM),
founded in 1993, publishes a consumer's guide and tutorial to MSAs on
its Web site. AFCM is the nation's only educational organization based
on individual rights, personal responsibility and free market ideas in
medicine.
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Copyright © 2003 Americans for Free Choice in Medicine. All rights reserved.
For reprint permission, contact AFCM.
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