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Medina Testimony
Medina Testimony
Medina Testimony
For example, the charges you ~villacldress today and in the coming months read
like a recipe for government intei.\~entionand microil~anagementrather than the
aspirations of a conser\rativc legislature cletermined to preserve and protect the
freedom and prosperity of her citizens. Certainly a state shoulcl be concernecl
about the health and welfare of her citizens. Efforts to provide for our citi~ens
however ultimately result in greater neeel anci dependence and undermines the
very freedom and prosperity we are sworn to protect.
Most of America sees the flawed logic ancl unclerstands the catastrophic in~pact
additional federal intervention m~ill11al~eon the clualitv, availability and cost of
healthcare and \.et the charges that iTouconsicier, in effect the goals that have
been set in these cl~arges,woulcl leael Texas clo~vnthe same treacherous path.
If we're to adopt public policy that will insure Texans enjoy access to world-class
healthcare and foster the highest level of services, a~ailableto the greatest
number of our citizens at the lowest possible cost:
WE MUST nullify any and all federal regulation that reaches beyond the scope of
Art. I Sec. 8 of the U.S. Constitution including the recentlv passed "Patient
Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act",
WE MUST adopt policies that promote coinpetition slid choice and repeal those
that create government-enforced artificial scarcity.
Finally, a reminder from one who understood freedom and whose ideals have
stood the test of time, "Protest as much as you like that its acts are inspired b\
the purest philanthropy, are designed as incentives to virtue and industry, are
bonuses, favors, direct protection, so-called gratuitous gifts, alleged acts of
generosity; behind these fine appearances, or if you will, these fine realities, I will
show you other less gratifying realities: the rights of soinc violatecl for the
advantage of others, liberties sacrificed, proycrtv rights usurpecl, cayabilitics
curtailed, acts of plunder perpetrated." Bastiat, F., t t o l ~ o / t l l t' Y I F ~ ~ I [ ~ ) )lr\
~ S , ington-
on-Hudson, New York, USA: 1996 (First published In 1845).