Health Care Activism - Contact your Representatives

As announced in a prior e-mail to the group and prior post, health care is our very timely current topic for intellectual activism. I will be sending out e-mails with opportunities for us to spread the Objectivist perspective, and hope many of you can participate with whatever time you have available.

Our first opportunity is to bring rational ideas to the attention of our elected representatives – and to show them, compellingly, that a smart, informed opposition to the ObamaCare debacle does exist.

To make it easier for you to contact your representatives, we have pulled some resources together:

List of representatives, with addresses, e-mail forms and town hall meetings. (Thanks, Kirk, for pulling this together!) If you are not on our e-mail list yet, and would like to obtain this list, please e-mail us at goldengateobjectivists[at]gmail[dot]com, and we will send you the list and add you to our mailing list.

Helpful links to articles you can read up for your own arguments, or share as links with the representatives (or print & mail to their physical office addresses.)

“Health Care is Not A Right” by Dr. Peikoff

Dr. Lewis’ analysis of the house bill

The Objective Standard has many great articles on healthcare. Craig Biddle, the publisher, is giving people the permission to buy a pdf of an article, and then distribute it free of charge as intellectual activism. You can find one great article, “Moral Health Care vs Universal Health Care”, here. If you want to forward the article to your representatives or others, please go to TOS and pay the $4.95 to buy your own pdf copy to support the magazine.

Let’s get a lot of e-mails and letters out to the representatives. They will likely not share our ideas – but it’s much harder to honestly claim the opposition is an ‘angry mob’ when we can show the intellectual quality of the argument for free market health care.

P.S. It is also a good idea to use these same links and materials with your own personal networks – distribute the TOS article to friends & family who may be sympathetic, or post the links to the articles to your Facebook/MySpace pages etc.