{"id":2620831,"date":"2026-06-29T09:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reject-the-system-that-stole-your-medical-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:36:35","slug":"reject-the-system-that-stole-your-medical-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reject-the-system-that-stole-your-medical-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Reject The System That Stole Your Medical Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freject-the-system-that-stole-your-medical-freedom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2620831&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On July 4,2026,the United States will celebrate its 250th anniversary,emphasizing the importance of reclaiming the lost freedom of medical autonomy. The article argues that while Americans enjoy many freedoms,their ability to make self-reliant medical decisions has been eroded,especially during the COVID-19 pandemic,which showcased medical tyranny in the US.Historically,Americans paid out of pocket for healthcare,maintaining true medical freedom until the rise of third-party insurance plans during the Great Depression and the expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/susan-sarandon-rips-democrats-for-failure-on-stimulus-warns-of-2022-collapse\/\" title=\"Susan Sarandon Rips Democrats For Failure On Stimulus, Warns Of 2022 Collapse\">employer-sponsored health insurance<\/a> in the 1940s.this shift led to most Americans relying on insurance and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, resulting in a system where third parties control much of healthcare spending, limiting patients\u2019 choices and autonomy. The author asserts that control over healthcare dollars by government and insurance companies prevents individuals from making optimal medical decisions.To restore medical freedom, the article advocates repealing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-introduce-healthcare-freedom-act-of-2022-2\/\" title=\"House Republicans Introduce Health... ... Act Of 2022\">employer-sponsored insurance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maha-goes-to-congress-how-rfk-jr-and-his-allies-hope-to-tackle-chronic-disease-epidemic-with-trump-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"MAHA goes to Congress: How RFK Jr. and his allies hope to tackle chronic disease epidemic with Trump - Washington Examiner\">expanding health savings accounts<\/a>, enabling individuals to manage their healthcare funds directly. This approach promises to reduce costs, enhance personal choice, diminish bureaucratic overhead, and eliminate fraud, ultimately restoring constitutional rights and improving the healthcare system. The article concludes by urging Americans to reclaim their medical freedom as a patriotic act during the upcoming Independence Day.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On July 4, 2026, when our country commemorates its 250th\u202fbirthday, Americans will celebrate the Constitution and the freedoms it bestows. There is, however, one freedom\u00a0missing\u00a0that we need to reclaim: medical autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are free to speak their minds,\u202f<em>except<\/em>\u202fwhen they contradict the official medical narrative, shown by the government\u2019s response to Covid-19. Americans are free to gather, to work, and to\u00a0pray <em>until\u202f<\/em>a federal bureaucrat declares a public health emergency. Americans have legally protected medical autonomy (freedom to choose their medical care)\u202f<em>except\u202f<\/em>when Washington mandates injections of an experimental genetic treatment. <\/p>\n<p>The Covid response was a clear demonstration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursingpracticejournal.com\/articles\/cjncp-aid1040.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">medical tyranny<\/a> in the United States, but it was not the beginning.\u00a0Erosion\u00a0of our medical autonomy began\u00a0nearly a\u00a0century ago with the\u00a0best of\u00a0intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 1929, Americans paid directly out of pocket for their own health care. They had medical autonomy. Health insurance was\u00a0mainly for\u00a0lost wages when ill or injured. Charity organizations and some patient fees supported hospitals. As medical knowledge and capabilities grew in the late 19th\u202fand early 20th\u202fcenturies, cost of care grew\u00a0exponentially along\u00a0with medical miracles. <\/p>\n<p>The principle of third-party\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/articles\/health-insurance-baylor-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pre-payment<\/a>\u202fplans started in Dallas, Texas during the Great Depression. Baylor Hospital\u00a0offered\u00a0local\u00a0schoolteachers up to\u00a021 days\u00a0per year of hospital care for an annual prepayment contract of 50 cents per person per month. Gradually, the idea of prepayment for care expanded from Texas to national and from hospital care (Blue Cross) to physician services (Blue Shield). The passage of employer-sponsored health insurance (ESHI) in 1942 to compensate for wartime wage freezes accelerated the spread of insurance-based, third-party payment for care.<\/p>\n<p>By 1965, with the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/10\/the-trap-of-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-time-to-empower-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ESHI<\/a>\u202fstill in force,\u00a0nearly 80 percent\u00a0of working class Americans had prepayment medical insurance through their employers. Since retirees, children, the unemployed, and chronically ill patients were left\u00a0out,\u00a0Congress passed Medicare and Medicaid as part of the 1965 Social Security Amendments.<\/p>\n<p>At present,\u00a0virtually all\u00a0Americans have medical coverage through an insurance-based, third-party payment system via private or government insurance. The uninsured receive care via the Emergency Medical Transport and Labor Act of 1986.<\/p>\n<p><em>He who controls\u00a0the gold\u00a0makes the rules.<\/em>\u202fNowhere is this truer than in health care. Through their control of health care spending, third parties decide what care people get (or\u00a0don\u2019t), when, where, and by whom. Patients are not free to decide their own care even though medical autonomy is\u00a0supposedly protected\u00a0by law. <\/p>\n<p>Americans are not free to choose their care because they cannot control their health care dollars. Neither Washington nor insurance companies have any money of their own. The only funds they have to spend as\u00a0\u201chealth care dollars\u201d\u00a0are monies taxpayers give them, or more precisely,\u00a0$5.23 trillion that Washington\u00a0took\u202fas\u00a0taxes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/2025-employer-health-benefits-survey\/\">$2.26 trillion<\/a>\u202fthat\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/10\/the-trap-of-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-time-to-empower-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">employers took<\/a>\u202ffrom workers\u2019\u00a0wages.<\/p>\n<p>That is the acme of irony \u2014\u00a0we generate the instruments of our own\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/tools_in_the_service_of_tyranny.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tyranny<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>While technically third <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >party insurance companies expend health care\u00a0dollars<\/a>,\u00a0they spend according to government rules and regulations.\u00a0Thus, the ultimate medical authority, the true tyrant in control, is Big Brother.\u00a0When insurance denies you care or takes forever to provide, they are simply playing the game to\u00a0optimize\u00a0their profit within rules\u00a0established\u00a0by Washington.<\/p>\n<p>We need to reclaim our medical autonomy for three reasons.\u00a0First, individuals always\u00a0make better medical decisions for themselves (with a physician\u2019s advice) than some unnamed,\u00a0faceless\u00a0and unaccountable\u00a0bureaucrat. Second, if patients control their own health care dollars,\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/atr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/atr_empower-patients_report_v8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spending will decline<\/a>\u202fdramatically. And most important, restoring American medical freedom is the right thing to do, morally, ethically, legally, and economically.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to reclaim our heritage of freedom. President Trump quipped the answer,\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yC5o3qARhmU&#038;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Give the money to the people<\/a>.\u201d\u202f\u202fStart with repeal of employer-sponsored insurance and expansion of health savings accounts so there are no limits. <\/p>\n<p>After World War II, all the wartime\u00a0wage\u00a0and price freezes were repealed\u00a0except\u00a0one: ESHI. This, too, should be repealed to give 84 million American employees their full wages. In 2025, the average amount employers sent per employee to insurance companies was\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/2025-employer-health-benefits-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$26,993<\/a>. Add that money to their paychecks. Allow them to put that money in a new\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/47FzLI1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no-limit health savings account<\/a>.\u202f\u202fThey will be free to shop for care and insurance. No third party deciding\u00a0\u201cfor\u201d\u00a0the patients. Including employees\u2019\u00a0family members, half the U.S. would suddenly have a free market with $2.26 trillion to spend on health care. <\/p>\n<p>Restoring medical freedom offers three powerful advantages. First, Americans regain their full constitutional birthright. Second, health care spending currently diverted to the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KarthikRagunathanMD\/posts\/pfbid02VFYHYXJkmiFSYAwCbM4HK2dMUL2jP7H5xoJ4XqW3mvUbu9q3SwDHXXXsPRS7h3T9l?rdid=k7Yh1cmhHXdrqbav\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health care bureaucracy<\/a>\u202fwill decrease substantially. Third, by removing\u00a0third parties\u00a0from\u00a0the medical transaction, medical fraud becomes\u00a0nearly impossible. <\/p>\n<p>This Fourth of July, Americans should give themselves a special birthday present. Demand your medical freedom back! <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Deane Waldman, M.D., MBA, is professor emeritus of pediatrics, pathology, and decision science at the University of New Mexico; former director of the Center for Healthcare Policy at Texas Public Policy Foundation; former director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange; author of 12 books; and co-author with Dr. Vance Ginn of the forthcoming, \u201cEmpower Patients \u2013 Two Doctors\u2019 Care for Healthcare.\u201d Follow him on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrDeaneW\">@DrDeaneW<\/a> or contact via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deanewaldman.com\">www.deanewaldman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reclaim Medical Autonomy on America\u2019s 250th Birthday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":2620832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nappy-vkqr2zpOPhQ-unsplash-e1782240258453.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[81892,81891,81893],"class_list":["post-2620831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-healthcare-rights","tag-medical-freedom","tag-system-corruption"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nappy-vkqr2zpOPhQ-unsplash-e1782240258453.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620835,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620831\/revisions\/2620835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}