Dear Fellow Patriot,
As Dr. Paul has warned for years,
authoritarians and statists rely on fear, panic, and apathy to
seize more and more control over society.

Well, the good news with this whole
coronavirus panic, and governments' responses, is more and more
Americans are embracing "the animating spirit of libertarianism,"
as POLITICO recently put it.

And some of the politicians are starting to
worry about the backlash as a result of their draconian
coronavirus decrees.

People are fed up with being under virtual
house arrest and are starting to see the authoritarian power
grabs as just that.

Protests sprang up this week in Wyoming,
Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas,
Wisconsin and Virginia, and more are planned next week across the
country.

And with Campaign for Liberty supporters'
help, we're working hard to make sure a new era of liberty not
only takes root but flourishes.

There's a lot of difficult work ahead though.

While it's quickly become clear the global
elites, Big Government statists, and authoritarian bureaucrats
blew this coronavirus crisis way out of proportion, they aren't
going to give up on their new found powers readily.

After all, the invisible coronavirus enemy
was all the excuse they needed for the Fed-created stock market
rollercoaster and funneling massive amounts of wealth to their
politically well-connected cronies.

And if you think they won't try to eek every
ounce they can from this crisis, you're dead wrong.

That's why I wanted to make sure you saw Dr.
Paul's recent column on the looming threat of a Healthcare
PATRIOT Act.

As Dr. Paul points out, politicians,
bureaucrats, and special interests have been after
federally-mandated healthcare IDs and databases for years.

And with 22 million Americans added to the
unemployment rolls in the past few weeks, millions more subject
to virtual house arrest, and many demanding an end to the
unwarranted lock-downs, it's not hard to imagine this is what the
authoritarians' plans to reopen America will involve.

Campaign for Liberty will keep you up-to-date
on this looming battle and our plans to fight back against these
power grabs. For now, please read Dr. Paul's column, and then,
forward it to your family, friends, and coworkers.

And chip in $50, $25, $10, or whatever you
can afford to support Campaign for Liberty's efforts to halt the
statists' assaults on our liberties.

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In Liberty,

Norm Singleton





A Healthcare PATRIOT Act?

by Ron Paul, C4L Chairman

According to a story in Politico, the White
House Coronavirus Task Force is considering creating a national
surveillance system to track Americans' health information.
Supporters of this initiative claim it would enable the federal
government to quickly identify areas in need of additional
medical supplies and other assistance because the areas are
coronavirus "hot spots."

Of course, it is unlikely that this system
would be limited to only tracking coronavirus patients. The
government may eventually keep track of every hospital admission
- or even all visits to doctors' offices - in the United States.
This system could, and likely would, be used to violate privacy
and harass and intimidate those challenging existing government
policies. Anyone who doubts this should ask themselves what J.
Edgar Hoover or Lois Lerner would have done with access to every
American's medical history. No wonder some have described this as
a healthcare PATRIOT Act.

Despite official denial that the White House
is considering a new tracking program, the coronavirus panic may
be used to justify giving the federal government access to our
medical records.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and special
interests have for years been trying to create a database of all
Americans' medical records that could be accessed by federal
bureaucrats and government-favored special interests. The 2008
"stimulus" bill included federal funding to develop a system to
store healthcare records electronically. This was a step toward
creating a federally controlled database of all Americans'
healthcare records.

A major part of the plan to give government
access to and control of our medical records is assigning every
American a "unique patient identifier." Fortunately, in 1998 an
appropriations "rider" I drafted forbidding the use of federal
funds to develop a unique patient identifier passed Congress and
has been renewed ever since. However, last year the House of
Representative voted to lift the prohibition. After my Campaign
for Liberty and other health freedom advocates pressured
Congress, the funding ban was restored. Those favoring this
Orwellian scheme will no doubt use the coronavirus panic as an
excuse to seek to repeal the funding ban.

The same law that sought to create the
uniform patient identifier also authorized creation of misnamed
federal medical privacy regulations that allow government
officials and certain private interests to access medical records
without patients' consent.

Federally mandated healthcare IDs and
databases will weaken healthcare. Patients must provide details
regarding their personal lives and habits so their physicians can
make diagnoses. How comfortable would people be sharing this
information if they knew it would be stored in a federal "health
tracking" database?

Bill Gates has suggested that when a
coronavirus vaccine is developed individuals should be issued
digital certificates proving they received the vaccine.
Similarly, coronavirus fearmonger-in-chief Dr. Anthony Fauci has
floated the idea that Americans who have been vaccinated for
coronavirus or have in the past contracted the virus be issued
"coronavirus immunity cards."

Implementing Gates' or Fauci's suggestions
could lead to people being forced to receive a coronavirus
vaccine or suffer legal penalties. The power to force individuals
to receive medical treatment would likely be expanded to apply to
other communicable diseases as well as behaviors and conditions
such as smoking or obesity. Those who value liberty must do all
they can to ensure authoritarians like Gates and Fauci do not
make respect for our right to control our healthcare a casualty
of the coronavirus panic.
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