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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

October 17, 1994

! Contact: Scott Holleran, Executive Director, AFCM  (714)-645-2622
	      Ron Kagan, President, The Ayn Rand Society  (310)-397-6595


DOCTOR TAKES ON "SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM"


Crusades Against Health Care as a "Right" in Presentation at UCLA


! Topic: "The Single Payer System: Bad Medicine for California" and How
to Protect Your Free  Choice in Medicine.


Arthur Astorino Jr., MD., chairman of the Southern California-based
Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, will return to his alma mater,
UCLA, at 7 P.M., Wednesday, October 26, to challenge the notion of health
care as a "right".

He'll make his presentation in the Center for the Health Sciences, room
13-105, University of California, Los Angeles. His topic is "The Single
Payer System: Bad Medicine for California".  He'll also offer advice on
how to protect your free choice in medicine.

Dr. Astorino became interested in health care reform after recognizing
that the current system was flawed by ignoring the principles which
formed America's foundation: individual liberty, personal responsibility
and free enterprise.  Thus, the notion of universal coverage was being
accepted without challenge; free market economics and the principle of
individual liberty are absent from the debate.

He drafted a proposal, which included voluntary tax-free Medical Savings
Accounts (MSAs) and high deductible health insurance.  His presentation
challenges the notion of universal coverage as a noble goal.  He'll argue
that universal coverage means the enslavement of doctors and patients
alike, that it is the premise of a single payer system, and a fundamental
violation of our real rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.  

Last year, Dr. Astorino founded Americans for Free Choice in Medicine,
whose purpose is education and intellectual activism.  The organization
appeared on ABC News' "20/20" and on C-Span.  Dr. Astorino serves as
AFCM's Chairman.

Dr. Astorino attended Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, and then
completed his residency at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the UCLA
Medical Center.  He practices ophthamology in Newport Beach.

This program is sponsored by The Ayn Rand Society of UCLA, Americans for
Free Choice in Medicine, and the Southern California Objectivist
Association.  Admission is free.  For more information, call
(714)-645-2622.

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"You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot
 add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting the leg off a giant."

                                ! Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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Ron Kagan
rkagan@ewald.mbi.ucla.edu