Watching (often depressing) Lansing bill hearings creates a sense of urgency. We need to celebrate legislators who actively defend our healthcare freedoms!

As you know, healthcare freedom is under perpetual attack in Lansing. It would be easy to get disgusted and write off the whole show.

Yet it has never been more important to speak up – especially for the lawmakers who represent our interests.

Proposing a bill is relatively easy, and so is talking to friendly audiences.

But digging into health policy issues takes hard work, and speaking up on the record takes courage.

Hearings tend to be tightly controlled for time and content. Getting a word in against “favored” bills is difficult. Yet, heroically, some freedom defenders manage to do so, and do it well.

We should celebrate legislators who speak out for healthcare freedom. In fact, they deserve an award!

In that spirit, MHF invites nominations for the MHF Defender Award.

MHF Defender Award

Qualifications:

To qualify, a state lawmaker must have articulated inherent, individual rights related to a health policy bill last year:

Life
Liberty
Property, including labor and conscience rights

The legislator must have spoken on the record during a committee hearing last year to qualify.

Healthcare freedom defenders are already on the record

Video recordings hearings are easy to find and watch. To find the correct year, use the filter button for the House and the search bar for the Senate.

Almost every committee had health-related hearings last year, but they were especially heavy in committees on Health, Human services, government operations, appropriations, and education.