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Natural Health Care Blog
Health Care Rights
January 19, 2016
Would Pregnant Minors be Able to Get Abortions Without Their Parent’s Consent if the Act to Protect the Privacy Of Health Care Decisions is Passed?
Not in this state. Parents are the best people to advise and protect their daughters and sons in these matters. They will bring the most love to their children under the circumstances. Claims to the contrary are insults to all parents and to families. Enough said.
January 19, 2016
Would Passage of the Act to Protect the Privacy of Health Care Decisions Legalize Recreational Drug Use?
Recreational drug use is by definition, not medical drug use, so no, passage of the act would have no affect on the legality of recreational drug use. It would however, legalize as a right, the medical use of any drug or herb whether or not the drug or herb could be used for recreational purposes.
January 19, 2016
How Would Passage of the Act to Protect the Privacy of Health Care Decisions Effect a Woman’s Right to Manage or Terminate Her Pregnancy?
Passage of the Act to Protect the Privacy of Health Care Decisions essentially reiterates the right to privacy first proclaimed in Roe v Wade and enshrined in Article One of the California Constitution. Terminating or keeping a pregnancy is certainly a health care decision as well as moral decision. Both types of decisions are private and solely the purview of the individual who has the condition that necessitates making the decision. The government, no matter how well intentioned, has no more right to enter the bedroom or mind of anyone than any other stranger.
January 19, 2016
How Would the Act to Protect the Privacy of Healthcare Decisions Effect Obamacare?
Fundamental to the right to make health care decisions privately, is the right to make them without government interference. If the government mandates a course of action, the decision to take or not take action is no longer the individual’s; it is the government’s.
January 15, 2016
How Would Passage of the Act to Protect the Privacy of Health Care Decisions Affect Private Insurance Contracts?
First, entering into a contract with an insurance company for provision of health care is a health care decision. Once the terms of the contract are settled, the contract, having been entered into voluntarily, would limit decisions to the extent the contract limits decisions. Here are some examples:
January 4, 2016
Protecting Your Right to Make Your Own Decisions Concerning Your Health Care
When I was a boy, the thought that any government could coerce any free person of sound mind to do or not do something affecting one’s own health was inconceivable. The thought that a parent could be prohibited from knowing what his or her children were doing to affect their health was outrageous. Any healthcare practitioner touching a child without a parent’s consent except in case of emergency could be subject to suit or criminal liability. Only the Nazis practiced enforced health care and denied health care to citizens of sound mind. As a friend of mine from China once said, “No matter how bad the communists are, at least they don’t interfere with parents care of their children.” That our state government could deny access to health care just because one was injured at work was beyond the realm of reason! Yet within the past decades, our Legislature has enacted laws that do interfere with our parental care of our children, that do force medical treatments upon them, and that deny people expedient, or in some cases, any care simply because they are injured at work and want to avoid surgery. What has our legislature become?