Health pitch a violation of basic American rights
Asheville Citizen-Times | November 28, 2009
Senator Hagan,
The health care reform legislation pending approval in Congress, H.R. 3950, contains mandates to obtain individual health insurance coverage. With this provision, Congress stands to violate my rights, rather than protect them, which, in point of fact, is Congress's constitutional mandate.
This provision is a clear violation of my right to voluntarily associate and contract with employers, health care professionals and insurance providers to our mutual benefit without the interference of a predatory third party.
It violates my right to economic freedom by forcing me to purchase health insurance services against my will. It violates my right to property by forcing me to pay penalties for declining to participate in a coercive program. It violates my right to liberty by forcing me to submit to incarceration for nonpayment of penalties or additional taxes.
It violates my right to self-determination. It violates my right to use my mind to make judgments regarding my own interests and actions.
In short, this legislation violates my right to peaceably live my life as I see fit.
I stand in opposition to this violation of my Constitutionally-protected individual rights. I say "No" to the coervice mandates contained in this proposal. And it is my hope and wish that you, Senator Hagan, will stand with me and say "No" to this rights-violating health care bill.
TIM PECK
ASHEVILLE NC
[Hand-delivered to Sen. Hagan's Asheville office and published in the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Asheville Daily Planet]
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