A world in which the health of the community is advanced by each individual and family having the broadest possible choice of affordable healthcare options and the legally protected right to choose the approaches that they believe will maximize their individual health.

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To advance the rights of patients and their families to choice, information, safety and redress in healthcare; to protect the rights of health educators and practitioners; and to raise the awareness of policy makers and the public about healthcare options, regulatory decisions that affect health rights, and the efforts of special interests to limit healthcare choice and access.

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• Provide information so individuals can make healthcare choices that reflect their needs, wants and philosophies.

 
• Defend the Constitutional right of all Americans to be free from unreasonable intrusion on their persons and their privacy by opposing all coercive medical procedures and invasions of health privacy whether public or private.

 
• Support the right to free expression of patients, practitioners and educators.

 
• Strengthen the patient-practitioner contract and advocate reform of unreasonable practice of medicine rules.

 
• Inform practitioners and the public about the array of available health options and their choice and privacy rights.

 
• Promote the use of informed choice as a new standard for informed consent.

 
• Support research into the safety, efficacy and cost of emerging health options.

 
• Challenge monopolization of the healthcare industry by special interest groups.