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ST. PAUL, MN--(Marketwire -08/31/12)- Much talk has ensued about Congressman and Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan regarding his Medicare reform program. While the plan takes important steps toward fixing the ills of an expensive, unfunded liability, the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom says an exit path to move away from Medicare completely to a more efficient, effective and individually maintained plan is necessary to meet the care and coverage needs of the coming generations of seniors.

The Ryan plan proposes repealing Obamacare and its rationing board, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). However, it proposes the implementation of a government "exchange for Medicare plans" which would act very much like the exchanges in the Affordable Care Act, with many of the same cost and privacy intrusion pitfalls.

"While the Ryan plan makes some important strides by recognizing the coming Medicare crisis, it needs to go a step further and create a substitute for the rising generations of seniors who have paid into a program that is expected to be bankrupt in the very near future," said Twila Brase, President on the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom. "While Ryan's plan wisely moves Medicare to a 'premium support'-defined contribution program, it is still a government entitlement program for all citizens age 65 and older. We envision a future where citizens buy their own life-long insurance policies free of political agendas, beltway bureaucracy, and Congressional budget constraints. Once Obamacare is repealed, free-market health insurance programs will provide the best opportunity to meet the needs of future senior citizens without the inefficiency and high cost of government involvement."

The Citizens' Council for Health Freedom applauds Congressman Ryan for opening a national dialogue about the critical precipice that Medicare is on. But in order to make meaningful strides in creating a program that supports high-quality care and suits the needs of each individual, the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom asserts that the free market offers the best way to achieve those goals.

Twila Brase is president and co-founder of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom. She has been called one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Health Care" and one of "Minnesota's 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders." The Council's efforts have stopped government-issued treatment directives, added informed consent requirements for access to patient data and defeated a proposed Health Insurance Exchange. Brase's daily radio commentary, Health Freedom Minute, is a 60-second radio address on pressing health care issues. She has been interviewed by CNN, Fox News, Minnesota Public Radio, NBC Nightly News, NBC's Today Show, NPR, New York Public Radio, the Associated Press, Modern Healthcare, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Washington Times, among others.

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Citizen's Council for Health Freedom Says Medicare Needs Replacement, Not Rescue

August 30, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Normal, IL - Jim Jacquot's RBI single in the top of the ninth proved to be the game winner for the Florence Freedom(54-39) as they defeated the Normal CornBelters(28-65) Thursday night 1-0.

With the Freedom's win and the Schaumburg Boomers 9-1 loss to Southern Illinois, the Freedom will enter their final regular season series Friday against Evansville in sole possession of the final wild card spot.

Freedom starter Andres Caceres took a no decision for a fifth straight game as he went 6.2 innings allowing 5 hits with 5 walks and 6 strikeouts.

Brent Choban(3-1) earned the win out of the bullpen pitching .2 innings with a strikeout. Jorge Marban collected his 15th save working a 1-2-3 ninth.

Jacquot paced the Freedom offense by going 2-4 with the game winning RBI.

The game was scoreless until the ninth inning. Eddie Rodriguez led off with a single. Kyle Bluestein then pinch ran and stole second while Drew Rundle struck out at the plate. Jacquot then lined a pitch into right field scoring Bluestein on his 52nd RBI of the season.

The Freedom continue their six game road trip Friday night in Evansville, Indiana against the Otters.

RHP Andy Clark(1-1, 2.55) takes the mound for Florence while Evansville will have LHP Matt Zielinski(7-6, 3.93) on the hill. The game can be heard starting at 7:20 pm with Steve Jarnicki on Real Talk 1160 AM and realtalk1160.com.

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Jacquot's Single Wins It for Freedom

New York archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivered the benediction Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., minutes after former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney accepted the party's nomination for president of the United States.

Appearing on stage beside only Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, and after hundreds of red, white and blue balloons fell from the ceiling of the Tampa Bay Times Forum, Dolan began his prayer by asking for God's "continued blessings on this sanctuary of freedom, and on all of those who proudly call America home" and "upon those yet to be born and on those who are about to see you at the end of this life."

The archbishop continued, asking God's guidance for Romney, vice-president candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, those in and seeking public office to "remember that the only just government is the government that serves its citizens instead of itself."

The prayer, lasting just over four minutes, was much anticipated by Catholics and other observers, eager to hear what Dolan would say and if his words would suggest any partisan leaning.

Much debate followed the archbishop's acceptance Aug. 23 of the GOP's invitation to pray with their delegates in Tampa, with many questioning whether Dolan, the president of the U.S. bishops' conference, by his presence would signal support of one party over another.

Some of the uproar subsided Tuesday when it was announced Dolan would also lead the final benediction of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

In his benediction, broadcasted live by only a few networks, Dolan focused a significant portion of his prayer on freedom, saying, "Almighty God, who gives us the sacred and inalienable gift of life, we thank you as well for the singular gift of liberty.

"Renew in all of our people a respect for religious freedom in full, that first most cherished freedom. Make us truly free by tethering freedom to truth and ordering freedom to goodness.

Help us live our freedom in faith, hope and love, prudently and with justice, courageously and in a spirit of moderation, and kindle in our hearts a new sense of responsibility for freedoms cause and make us ever grateful for all those for who for more than two centuries have given their lives in freedoms defense."

Below is Dolan's benediction in full:

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At RNC, Dolan prays for freedom, just government