Despite his promises to “drain the swamp,” President Trump has nominated Alex Azar, former President of the U.S. division of drug company Eli Lilly, as Secretary of the United States Department of Human and Health Services (HHS.)
If confirmed, Azar would head HHS, also known as the Health Department, charged with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential services.
Although Azar has experience as both general counsel and former deputy secretary of HHS under President George W. Bush, he is the wrong person for the job!
As general council for HHS, Azar participated in the Autism Omnibus Proceedings that denied more than 5,000 claims of vaccine injury to devastated families.
Later, as president of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly’s USA division for almost a decade, Azar exploited drug pricing. For example, Eli Lilly’s insulin product, Humulin R U-500, rose 325 percent in price from 2010 to 2015.
Azar’s career also includes a position as board member of the Biotechnology Innovation Association, a trade association that lobbies for manufacturers of biotech products including vaccines and GMOs.
We must fight against this nomination. Please take a moment to let your voice be heard!
TAKE ACTION
ACTION #1:
Contact both of your United States Senators and urge them to oppose Alex Azar’s confirmation. You can find out who represents you at: https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
Phone calls have a greater impact than emails. You can leave a very short message (“I urge my Senator to oppose Alex Azar’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS.”) Be clear and concise about why this issue matters to you and/or the people in your community. You can use some of the talking points below to help you get your thoughts in order.
If you do use email, be sure to use a clear subject line (“Oppose Alex Azar for Secretary of HHS”), and keep it short, but personal.
ACTION #2:
Email President Trump and respectfully let him know you oppose Alex Azar as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Again, a very short message is all that is needed.
Click here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
TALKING POINTS & MORE INFORMATION
1) Alex Azar is the wrong person for Secretary of Health and Human Services. He has many conflicts of interest and a track record for putting his corporate interests first.
2) As former President of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly and Company and member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby, Alex Azar is not a person who can be trusted to bring desperately needed reform.
3) The head of HHS should be an advocate for America’s people, not someone who has proven himself to put drug industry profits before the public’s wellbeing. “During Alex Azar’s tenure as an Eli Lilly & Co. executive prices rose dramatically for some of the company’s top drugs.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/hhs-nominee-oversaw-big-drug-price-increases-at-lilly-1510604129
4) If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Azar would oversee the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – which runs programs like Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Obamacare, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Indian Health Service (IHS), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). http://fortune.com/2017/11/13/trump-alex-azar-hhs-eli-lilly/
Remember, your involvement and activism works!
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Claire Dishman says
We must not allow further deterioration of our health care values and goals. The appointment of Alex Azar would be yet another egregious setback in our goals of health equality for all Americans.
Chef Jemichel says
Is it possible to get clear about the Law regarding Federal proprietary jurisdiction limits? What if the reach of the Department of Health does not Lawfully extend onto the land/s of the several states of the Union?
Consider the following:
A “Mans Court case may have cracked open Fraud of D.C. Federal Jurisdiction”. “Federal Proprietary Jurisdiction Limits” includes all “Acts of Congress”!
We’ve been saying all along at the Organic Laws Institute (and for years before) that Federal jurisdiction is limited firstly because it is based on natural proprietary jurisdiction limits of the land, the territory, the property, etc.[4] A “Man’s Court case may have cracked open Fraud of D.C. Federal Jurisdiction”![1]
“We are bound to interpret the constitution in the light of the law as it existed at the time it was adopted,” Mattox v. U.S., 156 U.S. 237, 243 (1895).[2]
Fact:
“Federal Proprietary Jurisdiction Limits” includes all “Acts of Congress”. I am willing to research the “Act” that created the Department of Health and prepare a report on that.
In any case –
The written Organic Laws tell us that Federal legislation is positively proprietary based. That means it’s limited to the territory actually owned by or subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States of America:
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17:
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_17s16.html
I have a number of blogs on this subject matter. This “comment” is excerpted from:
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2292529
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“… Federal Jurisdiction.
The zone of Federal Jurisdiction, where the U.S. Federal Government has exclusive legislative authority, is within the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the other American Offshore Territories and possessions, and under admiralty Law in the territorial waters off the continental coasts, (federal zone) outside of the territorial waters controlled by the states (state zone waters).
No Federal Legislative Jurisdiction lies within the borders of the 50 States. Federal rules, laws, and jurisdiction can only be applied within the 50 states borders with written permission from the state, for designated Federal Forts, Magazines, Interstate Waterways, and Buildings.”[3]
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If “The United States” (as per “this Constitution”) is congruent with the principal of proprietary-based jurisdiction then what (if any) true Lawful relationship do Americans have with “this Constitution” if they are not actually in “The United States” or in any legal arrangement with the United States government?
However, the status of “free inhabitant” is still an option, but one would have to be willing to let go of personally identifying as a subject (citizen) of the “United States government” and that may be too much to ask and especially if the Individual is wholly dependent upon government support.
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Notes:
[1] http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?85933-Mans-Court-case-may-have-cracked-open-Fraud-of-D-C-Federal-Jurisdiction&p=805982
See all these entries and most especially #66 to #70!
[2]
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/156/237/case.html
[3]
http://famguardian.org/taxfreedom/Evidence/OrgAndDuties/IRSPrivateCorp-20070630.pdf
[4] “Government bureaucrats rely on your ignorance of the fact that all written law is limited to a specific subject. For governments, the subject is territory. Thus, Congress cannot write laws for Japan. Furthermore, Congress cannot write laws to regulate you without your consent, unless the United States of America owns the property on which you are located.” – From: What Does The Constitution Say? at https://organiclaws.org
Also See: “Four Pillars of Constitutionalism”.
Wendy Gregor says
It’s rediculous to have someone like him in control of people’s health when he has already proven that he only cares about lining his own pockets.
diane stern says
i oppose, your bills because of your lack of knoweldege in the field of immunology
you will be devestating to human health ….
as a nurse of over 40 yrs, i have never seen anything good come from immunization, only horrible side effects.