November 7, 2024
Dear President-Elect Donald Trump,
Congratulations on being re-elected as the 47th President of the United States!
We are grateful for everything you have done to protect the rights and freedoms of all Americans – and to protect us from “all enemies foreign and domestic.”As our president, we know you are expected to understand a wide breadth of difficult policy issues. Health care is complex. Making it more difficult to understand is the fact that medical terms often do not mean what most Americans think they mean, allowing exploitation and profiteering at the patient’s expense, violating ethics and patient rights. For example:
- “Health care quality” scores physician compliance with government mandates.
- “Standards of care” push corporate one-size-fits-all treatment directives (protocols).
- “Privacy” keeps data “secure” while sharing it broadly without patient consent.
- “Reducing health disparities” pushes a divisive and discriminatory agenda.
- “Private health plans” mimic socialized medicine, controlling dollars, data, and decisions.
I am requesting a 15-minute meeting with you. I will use my time (and my expertise) to share key actions our organization believes you have the power to take during your first 30 days in office to put an end to damaging, immoral, and unethical government and corporate intrusion in the private medical decisions of patients and doctors. Our aim is to provide you with tangible ideas to rapidly restore patient and doctor freedom. The next four years are critical.
We have SEVEN suggestions for your immediate consideration, including re-issuing the October 2019 Medicare Executive Order we worked with your administration to secure. As President of the United States, you will be in the best position to act decisively—and quickly—to make them happen. You can change the trajectory of health care in America—away from socialism and back to freedom, the patient-centered mission of medicine, and affordable care and coverage.
Our seven suggestions target the primary “disease” from which American medical care suffers. As a result, health care in America is too expensive, physician job satisfaction and joy have disappeared, hospitals are closing, treatment options are limited to a corporate drop-down menu, and patients do not receive sufficient time and attention to even feel cared for.
If you take these steps to eradicate this “disease,” we predict medical care and coverage will once again be simple, affordable, caring, confidential, and charitable, in the deepest sense of the word. Importantly, our seven suggestions for action align with the Constitutional principles of America.
The clock of your presidency is ticking. Would you give me just 15 minutes of your time?
In absolute conviction that now is the time,
Twila Brase, RN, PHN
Co-founder and President
