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More Bills to Criminalize Naturopathy
Medical Monopoly is becoming a more finely tuned machine every day. It is no coincidence that other states are suddenly creating bills to criminalize naturopathic practices and other holistic modalities like ayurvedic, midwifery, aromatherapy, and more. Gaia-Health highlights news from the National Health Federation that provides full information on Nevada’s new bill SB 412 where practicing alternative health services without proper licensing and official approval is a felony. Below is information about the most recent state bill to show up on the radar.
Additionally, Marti Oakley of PPJ Gazette online writes about taking a closer look at North Carolina’s broadly written SB31 and other such acts NC has in production. It is very telling of their persistence in circumventing the people, and keeping the agenda rolling. When SB31 wasn’t meeting their end due to the backlash and necessity to rewrite, they simply introduced three more like bills: SB 467 Naturopathic Licensing Act (Hartsell, R-Cabarrus), HB 522 Midwifery Licensing Act ( Human Services Committee), and HB 847 Naturopathic Doctors Licensing Act
When Oakley started researching the NC bills, she found that nearly every state was introducing like bills simultaneously. A pattern emerges: broadly written, no clear statements of legislative intent – leaving things wide open to interpretation, lack of definition, i.e. “what is medicine,” and making that which is unregistered, unlicensed, and unapproved by “officials” criminal.
Both sources highlight the role of Codex Alimentarius which can’t fully be in place here if all states aren’t behind its regulatory wings. Oakley writes, “What is apparent is that it is the first step in implementing various aspects of Codex Alimentarius which excludes any health practice not listed in the Codex. Codex specifically targets and intends to end the use of alternative therapies and also vitamins and supplements.”
Think puffed up profits from synthetic “natural” medicine and more revenue collected from licensing fees and required “education” to satisfy bureaucratic boards. In other words, natural practitioners can’t serve clients, and you won’t have any freedom in choice of health care. For how can a natural health practitioner truly practice when it must now enter a contract that strictly abides by Codex guidelines?
If you have any information about such bills developing in your state, please email tips@healthfreedoms.org. Please try to include bill number if possible and a link to the bill or source article. We will compile them and be on the watch so that everyone is aware of their current state legislation regarding natural health care.
~Health Freedoms
Nevada Plans to Make Practicing Natural Medicine Without Official Sanction a Felony
The National Health Federation asks us to oppose the Nevada bill that wants to make practicing natural medicine without a license a felony. It’s yet another attack on our right to choose how we manage our health.
by the National Health Federation
The National Health Federation is the only agency that represents the interests of natural medicine and non-corporate-controlled medicine on Codex Alimentarius. They have put out an urgent call to action on behalf of the people of Nevada to save natural medicine from the clutches of government bureaucracy. Here’s what they have to say:
The Bill—Nevada Senate Bill 412 (SB 412) provides for the regulation of the practice of complementary integrative medicine by creating a government-sanctioned Board of Complementary and Integrative Medicines to control all natural health care, backed by the power of the State to imprison and fine all offenders. Just imagine when, as with other such medical boards, the power seekers and control freaks who naturally gravitate to positions of power in government come to have the say over what type of natural medicine may be practiced and what type may not. Will your favorite form of natural medicine survive? Or will it be branded a heresy and persecuted? It does not take a rocket scientist to see that this Bill is the road to ruin for all of those creative natural health practitioners who refu se to conform. This Board is just a not-so-clever attempt to create and enforce a monopoly that will end up strangling CAM practice.
SB 412 must be defeated or amended to protect natural health and its practitioners.
This legislation would put alternative practitioners of Nevada in serious jeopardy of felony fines and imprisonment for practicing complementary and integrative medicine that does not fit within the proposed Board’s licensing requirements and “accepted” practices. It is intended to define all natural healers and have them tested and/or approved by conventional doctors. There will be no grandfathering, no CEU (continuing education unit) for practicing licensees (under the Drugless Practitioner status), and it will make practicing any form of complementary health care a felony if the practitioner is not licensed.
Alarmingly, to become a “licensed” Complementary Integrative Physician under this proposed law, an applicant would have had to attend medical school or have “received an equivalent education satisfactory to the Board.” He or she must also be “of good moral character”; and we all know how other medical boards have used that requirement to persecute innocent practitioners. In short, the bill gives the Board great powers to set the bar at whatever level it wants to screen out unwanted alternative practitioners.
This is the Medical Monopoly at its finest, acting to stifle their competition and those they disagree with, the natural-health practitioners, all in the interest of course of “protecting” the public. This Bill would criminalize victimless conduct. After all, there should be no penalty at all – even a misdemeanor penalty – unless someone has been actually harmed and such harm has been proven in a court of law. This Bill is typical government overkill and completely unnecessary. Besides, the cost to the State of Nevada, once they create the Board and then try to license all these practitioners, will be far greater and more troublesome than they anticipate. In the end, as attractive as it might seem now to have a “stamp of approval by the State,” the Board will become just another costly, rigid, and loathed government agency, out of touch with reality.
Where This Bill Stands Now
The Bill is in the Senate Committee (Commerce, Labor & Energy) and is to be heard on Friday, April 15th, just two days from now.
Editor’s Note [Gaia-Health]: The NHF is trying to get the word out on this. It’s critical that everyone respond to their call—unless you want to see natural medicine become as rigidly controlled and limited as allopathy has become. At this time, any doctor who tries to act outside the mainstream is at great risk of losing his or her license to practice. The NHF’s description of a Natural Medicine Board becoming “just another costly, rigid, and loathed government agency, out of touch with reality” must be avoided—or we can kiss our most basic freedom, the right to manage our own health, goodbye.
My only quibble with the NHF’s commentary is that I do not believe that amending such a bill is adequate. Once the door has been opened to this sort of regulation, it can only become more and more grinding, until the entity being managed is destroyed. That’s a big part of what has happened to allopathic medicine. Don’t let it happen to natural medicine, too! [Emphasis added]
Sources:
http://gaia-health.com/articles401/000438-nevada-natural-medicine.shtml
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/north-carolina-not-only-state-trying-to.html
“Stamp of approval by the State”
When it comes to health this “approval” is often the kiss of death. ANYTHING our criminal governments “approve” should be highly suspect IMO, especially in matters of our health.
This emotive and irrational article is fully misleading. There is no intention to criminalize practicing alternative medicine in Nevada. What the proposed bill is intending to do is stamp out incompetent and phoney alternative practitioners, of whom there are very many, it seems.
Anyone properly trained and certified in their specialty will be given a license (I know, I just had lunch with the main pilots of the legislation).
People squeaking about their “rights” are almost invariably those out to abuse the system and others, ripping off clients and earning money for which they have no training or entitlement.
The author of this article has certainly never actually READ the bill (usual hysteria). It lists a ridiculous number of specialties which can be licensed. Get your facts right if you intend to stir up trouble.
This is at a time when an unlicensed practitioner in Nevada has just been arrested for killing a patient. There needs to be some control.
I am a fully qualified MD, with 4 degrees. If you suspect that I deplore improperly trained even unqualified individuals claiming to be health “experts” making money through dishonesty and incompetence, you would be right.
Everyone should meet a minimum standard of training, skills and certification before being allowed to be a healer. Licensing is the only way to get rid of humbugs.
The Nevada S412 licensing complementary integrative medicine is still moving and passed out of the Senate committee April 15th, 2011. Nevada has had a Board for over 30 years that is specifically for medical doctors that practice homeopathy and alternative medicine. It has always been criminal for unlicensed persons to practice medicine and homeopathy and alternatives in that state. However, now they are wanting to expand and call it the “Complememtary Integrative Medicine” Board and it will just entrench the criminal felony charges for the practice of integrative medicine which they are now defining as
Sec. 11. “Complementary integrative medicine” means
alternative and complementary systems of healing arts and holistic
therapies, including, without limitation, homeopathy, modalities,
diagnostics, treatments, procedures and protocols used to treat
patients
I must admit that I am a bit confused as to the real intent of our governments the world over….there are so many problems with finding affordable health care and many of the new medicines on the market today are not even available to some (due to cost), yet the various governments seem to be turning their backs on what could be one of the answers to better, safer preventative ideas for good health and at prices we can all afford. Why can’t we all enjoy the freedom to purchase and use vitamins, herbs and all those natural modalities that many of us are enjoying today??? Many of the herbal remedies have been handed down to us from our ancesters and… They work! They could lower the cost of health care too, so why take them away from us???? I can only think it is all about money and control… not about our health.
I am sure I am not alone when I say that I no longer feel safe trusting those who back the big drug companies to make decisions about matters dealing with my health. Just listen to the advertisements on tv for the various drugs…and if that is not enough to “wake us up” I do not know what will. Most of them end with something like this, “in some cases may cause death” or words similar. Now what does that tell you????
I do hope that all the misunderstandings about natural herbs, etc. does not create a witch-hunt. I join all of those individuals who work toward safer, more natural health-care and for the protection of our God given right to use those gift from nature to enhance our lives.
Bobbi Henderson – Blogging for Health!
By limiting our use of alternatives, people will turn back to the use of Big Pharma drugs with all their side effects, putting more of the profit in their pockets. As of now there are very limited practitioner schools for alternative medicines. A question I might ask is what does the government have to gain? They are being lobbied by big Pharma drug companies to do this and its all about greed and money. It has nothing to do with “we the People” they don’t care about us or our safety its all about the revenue gained.
At least alternate therpies don’t kill people like the fda approved
drugs do. Yes using them will lower health care costs. I’ll say it again leave herbs, vitamins aromatherpy all alternative care alone. stay
out of codex alamentris they are another don’t care about anybody but
their pocket books outfit. Go after the fda, codex, the pharmasuitical
companies and outfits like those. LEAVE NATURAL THERPIES AND NATURAL
PRODUCTS ALONE.
It is very clear that our government wants the American people on as many drugs as possible/profitable. If alternative practitioners are helping people to improve their health it is cutting into the drug dealers ( drug companies) profits. This bill has nothing to do with protecting the public or helping people be healthy. It reeks of lies, control and evil on our government actions.
The American people should be in an uproar over this type of criminal behavior from our government. Alternative medicine has been around way before the drug companies and their share holders came about and has been used with effective results and no negative side effects like the pharmaceuticals.
At what point to we take back control of our lives, our health and healing process. Disease is easier to prevent than it is to cure.
As I watched a TV program this afternoon, in the course of 1 hour there were 25 commercials for drugs, for old diseases, new diseases, made up diseases…”be sure to ask your doctor if blah-de-blah is right for you”. But your doctor gets a kickback from Big Pharma, so is it in your best interest or in his/hers to prescribe drug after drug? Their children are going to Harvard or Oxford…are yours? They live in huge million dollar houses and drive fancy cars…do you? If you wonder why our government would allow Big Pharma to dictate such ridiculous bills to our lawmakers, just follow the money trail and all your questions will be answered.
Shame on Big Pharma, the FDA and our government. This is the “change” we’ve all been waiting for? WTF?
I have not seen a doctor in 14 years. that last visit was for fractured ankles. the visit prior to that was for a tetanus shot. I have been ill but I have taken care of myself. I do it with natural meds that include Naturopathic treatments. I can do without big Pharma
Figures — whatever happened to freedom of choice, or for the people & by the people? So if we don’t march like cattle to the precise direction and control of the power-hungry we’re dead? Somehow that sounds a lot like Rome just before its collapse and like Germany just before Hitler came into play.
Here is an interesting link regarding midwifery in Oregon.
http://www.oregon.gov/OHLA/DEM/Midwifery_How_to_Get_Licensed.shtml
On May 13 and 14, there will be a symposium on Re-Thinking Psychiatry here, with Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic serving on a panel discussion on Friday and with workshops on Saturday. Many consumers/survivors/peers will be present.
Working-Class Acupuncture started here, and the model of low-cost group acupuncture is spreading to other places.
The best defense is a good offense. It may be possible to propose laws to designate one’s acupuncturist as one’s gatekeeper. As many family-practice doctors are overwhelmed, even they might not protest. The M.D. listed as my primary now got trained in acupuncture himself because reducing meds reduces side effects for his arthritis patients in particular.
In some states, it may be possible to find legislators who will propose proactive legal changes.
Dear Bright Shining One,
It is so slear to me that big business has sreated this movement. The republian agenda is a bout things not people. Women have been not heard for about 3 thousand years, much to our peril..mothers don’t send their sons to war, men do! All life comes from the vessel of woman! I am native, Saami, and we as all tribes do work for three generation to come . We ask ourselves: what did we do for the unborn today? We hope to expand their choices and options, not limit them.It seems to me, (I have lived and worked around a good part of this world,) that the support of regulations that are pro-business and not for life is basically ant-american. Against those values that made America a great moral force in the world. Until we reserse this process, we risk losing what value we have as a society, Aho! Snowtop
Dear Bobbi.
You are a lovely person, if somewhat naive. If I may, let me clear up your confusion. The government doesn’t give two tinks about “affordable health care” as should be obvious by the passage of ObamaCare, which will actually drive costs up. The real agenda is simple and written in stone in Georgia: Global Depopulation. The masks of this agenda are “capitalist greed” (which is really corporatism), civil unrest to specifically demand “democracy” (which is mob rule, which is how you get people like Castro and Chavez into position,)”natural” disasters (look up HAARP), and “social justice” (which nothing more than Marxism.) All of these masks hide the agenda that is clearly stated on the Georgia Guide stones: maintain world population at 500 million. With the population now estimated by some at 7 billion, that’s a whole lot of people who need to die or not be born by the target year of 2050.
It should be obvious then, that anything that prolongs, preserves, or advances human life is completely contrary to this agenda. Hope that clears up your confusion.
It is frustrating to be told abut something needing a response and not being given a link to a petition, or names/addresses to contact by email. Even at the original NHF website on this article, there was no such link. CAM supporters are going to be needing such help to have their voices heard, as this sort of thing gets worse, with the Establishment medical-pharmaceutical-government complex heating up its attacks on alternative meds.
So what if patients want to use an oxygen sauna or infared sauna? This is ridiculous and come down to pharm wanting more of the action when the price of meds are completely unreasonable in many cases.
Some could interpret massage as holistic, where do they draw the line? I think the government has much more important problems to be concerned with like the fact most states and the federal government are broke. If patients want to pay cash for a maybe therapy they should be able to do so. The states and federal government need to learn how to manage money and keep their nose out of our personal lives. Most people do not want to walk around in a drug induced state. They want to fix the problem not medicate it. Most of these spa type treatments are detox to clean your pores and none claim to cure anything.
To Angela. Oh no. This is VERY important to the government and it is very important to them. They stand to lose a lot of money if we keep ourselves well. The Medical machine and the government are hand in hand. The FDA gets paid by the drug companies through Prescription Drug User Fee Act, and it considers the drug companies its clients. The FDA just basically rubber stamps drug approvals. A lot of people would be out of work if oncologists could not poison and irradiate cancer patients, surgeons could not do surgery and doctors could prescribe drugs. Big Pharma makes huge profits off of sick people, not well people. They do not want you well. They want you just alive enough to have to keep taking their drugs.
Codex is a big pharma trade group, and they want most of all to get rid of your safe, food, get rid of your supplements and get rid of your herbs. And they are succeeding, small piece by small piece by state law by state law. And of course the EU THMP directive. Soon you will have virtually no supplements or herbs, no unpoisoned food, and just pharmaceuticals as your only medical choices. Why? Because this stuff cannot be patented, it works, and they cannot make off it or you if you are well. We fight and fight and get nowhere. Because they have the power. The WTO, of which the US is a member, gave it to them, and because the constitution puts treaty law over domestic law. Make no mistake, they know exactly what they are doing.
Frightening, absolutely frightening. I for one have had better results with alternative therapies and modalities than I have ever had with any doctor. How does one stop this legislation from spreading? Its MY right if I want to heal myself with alternative modalities.
this all fits in very well with the progressive marxist/communist stance of obama reid and pelosi (the gang of 3). control healthcare and control your citizens. its a page right out of adolf hitlers book “mine kampf.” its absolutely scary how the government is controlling our right of choice.
Ok I can see what all the anger is and why so many are upset about the government getting involved in natural therapies but think about the other side of the coin and that is those who take advantage of this feild for profit, in other words the snakeoil salesman who pretends to be an expert in this feild and treats or dispenses with natural remidies but in fact has no idea what the speak.
My grandmother believed in a so called natural practitioner who treated her with colored water for the cancer that ultimately took her life instead of seeing a true medical practitioner who might have been able to save her life.
Would you want someone without a medical license cracking open your chest for heart surgery.
I think those who dispense cures no matter from where they come should be qualified to do so to keep the public safe from those who care not about your wellbeing.
Correct me if i am wrong, but society today is NOT overrun with natural practitioners selling coloured water as a cure for cancer, HOWEVER, society DOES seem to be overrun with drugs and drug pushers finding any which way to shove it down our throats (our kids, and even our dogs), making up phony diseases, whatever it takes to keep us compliant and sheeple like until we die from the drug or the interaction between the cocktail that many end up taking. Pulleeez. Look where all the money and power is. THe bulk of society is on pharma drugs and our society is NOT WELL. Thank God, more people are waking up (although relatively few in the grand scheme of things) and taking responsibility for their own health and learning to make their own decisions (albeit against government funding school training). Anything to squash the minority that are ‘waking up’.
We certainly need properly trained and qualified physicians such as Dr. Keith. However, we don’t need or want them having a monopoly over our health care.
My then 25 year old father came home from World War ll and opened a tile company in Lubbock, Texas. Because he worked in newly constructed homes with no air conditioning and because Texas summers can be really hot, he drank about 20 cokes every day, instead of water, and ended up with a massive urinary tract infection. He was admitted and treated in the hospital in Lubbock with no result. His infection gradually worsened. He was transferred to Scott and White hospital in Temple, Texas where he was treated by the brightest and most qualified physicians in the state. His condition worsened. He was eventually transfered to the VA hospital in Temple where it was expected he would die.
My dad’s sister Connie came down from Oklahoma and got him released from the VA. She loaded him up in the back seat of her car and drove him to the little town of Ada in Oklahoma. Just outside of town lived an old Cherokee medicine man. My dad said the old man lived in a little house that was not much more than a shack but that there was an oil pump in the front yard and a brand new Cadillac parked beside the house. Seated at a table across from my dad, the old medicine man studied him for a minute or two then got up and went behind him where, according to my aunt, he jabbed him in the back with his thumb. My dad said he cried out in pain and thought the old man had stabbed him with a knife. The medicine man then returned to his seat across from my dad and started mixing sticks and leaves he gathered from the paper sacks and boxes he had around him. He put the herbs in a paper sack and told my aunt how to make tea for my dad to drink every day. My dad said that within two days his fever broke and within two weeks he was totally well. He never had another urinary tract infection for the rest of his life.
Now, my question for anyone reading this; who would you want treating you for a urinary tract infection, an unlicensed, and therefore, according to Dr. Keith and others, unqualified medicine man or Dr. Keith? Myself? I would choose the medicine man.
Thousands of people die in automobile accidents every year. Thousands more are permanently disabled. The majority of these accidents involved “LICENSED” drivers. Being licensed is only about money. It has little to do with intent, compassion, safety or integrity.
In Nevada about 16 years ago I brought my dad to 2 of the top cardiologists in the state because he was blacking out. Both of them told me to make my dad as comfortable as possible because his arteries are 99% blocked and so fragile if they operated he would die on the table from collapse. They both said his was a time bomb just waiting. He likely had 6 months to possibly a year if lucky. At the same time a licensed doctor was being ridiculed and threatened shut down for practices Chelation Therapy. The articles in the paper referred to his practice as quackery. Needless to say, we rushed to his aid in a desperate attemtp to save my father’s life. Now, it is 2011 and my dad has been black out free ever since he chelation treatments stopped. His arteries are now 45% blocked on one side and 30% blocked on the other. He will be 92 years old in October and the only time he has ever been to a doctor was to be told he was dying.
My dad grew up on raw milk and unprocessed food. No herbacides or pestacides and certainly no GMO’s. He never had a vaccine. I am afraid for this generation as our government is introducing every toxin possible into the food supply that causes desease. Now, they are trying to force a lifestyle on me that includes all I don’t believe in or trust.
Hi Stan!
Here are the names/email addresses of the committee to contact in Nevada. And thank you to everyone who takes the time to contact the members of this committee!
RE: SB 412 …. “Whether or not you live in Nevada, Nevadans need your help to call and email the members of the Nevada Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor & Energy, and urge them to oppose SB 412. The bill is a huge threat to health freedom, and it is not in the best interest of Nevadans or Americans.
The members of the committee are:
Michael A. Schneider (Chair) – (775) 684-6502, mschneider@sen.state.nv.us
Shirley A. Breeden (Vice Chair) – (775) 684-1457, sbreeden@sen.state.nv.us
David R. Parks – (775) 684-6504, dparks@sen.state.nv.us
Allison Copening – (775) 684-1475, acopening@sen.state.nv.us
James A. Settelmeyer – (775) 684-1470, jsettelmeyer@sen.state.nv.us
Elizabeth Halseth – (775) 684-1421, ehalseth@sen.state.nv.us
Michael Roberson – (775) 684-1481, mroberson@sen.state.nv.us
Remember to be polite, but firm, in your opposition to SB 412. Tell the committee members that the bill will do nothing but create a costly, unnecessary bureaucracy that will undermine health freedom, and urge them to oppose it.”
This information was copied from the article:
NEVADA SENATE BILL 412 TO ESTABLISH MEDICAL MONOPOLY, SQUELCH NATURAL AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer….naturalnews.com
Dr Keith, you are completely wrong. You are NOT a healer. You are a facilitator. Period. The body does its own healing and that’s what’s wrong with allopathic medicine in the first place! The incredible ego and hubris is astounding.
I work in allopathic health care and I know of what I speak. The industry, for that is what it truly is, is not about patient care any more, it’s about profit, from the schooling all the way down the line.
I plan to become an herbalist in the not too distant future; I will have by that time 10 years of schooling in allopathic medicine and patient care under my belt. I STILL believe that in many cases, alternative medicine does as least as good as, and in many cases, a better job than allopathic medicine. That’s because alternative medicine doesn’t look at the patient as a problem to be treated, nor do practitioners (in most cases) look at themselves as healers. Patients are human beings, and part of a whole, and you can’t take a look at one part and try to fix that without understanding the balance of the whole.
People are independent individuals. They have the right to ingest what they feel is best for their system without interference from a group who, at the heart, believe that any other method is competition to be snuffed out. This is not the same as regulating actual harmful practices; that is always going to be OK in my book; however, what allopathic medicine has been trying to do since the 1500′s is NOT about regulating harmful practices and it IS about snuffing out competition. Kind of like the Inquisition and its stamping out of ‘heresy’.
Your grandmother made her choice of the kind of treatment she wanted, and she died in the manner she chose. Your bitterness does not change the fact that she had the right, legally and morally, to choose those things. I would prefer that people like you do not gain the right to regulate the options available to people like me.
Here is Washington State, we have the oldest established law in the US for licensing Doctors of Naturopathy. Most have attended the well known Bastyr University. I cannot see why anyone would not want the individual States to establish licensing boards to establish minimum competency. Yes, they charge a fee, and sometimes, they get heavy handed as disciplinary boards. In the interest of public safety, however, they serve the greater good.
If the language of the bill has been drafted by the AMA, to prevent access to licensure to NDs, acupuncturists, or any health care discipline not currently boarded in Nevada, then a charge of violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act might be suggested. If the language is inclusive and non-discriminatory, there should be no problem, and not some conspiracy to install the “Codex”.
Les, don’t be naive. For your information, even those licensed doctors in Naturopathy are asking to be allowed to prescribe allopathic medicine. They are were the Psychiatrists and Chiropractors were a few years ago when they had to fight the allopathic doctors to be considered a legitimate profession… until they finally got their own boards.
All these so called Boards (regardless of the profession – Lawyers, Doctors, Accountants, Insurance agents, etc – exist for the protection of their members, no the public at large.
The majority of allopathic doctors, hospitals and Big Pharma are killing thousands of patients annually in the USA alone (drug overdoses, wrong prescriptions, misdiagnoses, etc., see http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/11856.php) and this epidemic continues unabated.
Why is this happening? They protect each other back within these boards. Who do we have to defend us? The FDA! No wonder we are in trouble. Now,these are the same “licensed” people who wants to eliminate the all conscious and well intended alternative medicine practitioners because of the very, very few “snake oil” salesmen who don’t last long in business anyway, if we let them.
I’d welcome the services of a top notch surgeon (notice I said surgeon)if I ever get involved in accident and I need to be put back together…. but for my health maintenance I’ll stick to my natural health practitioner.
I will write to all those pols listed by Carolyn above and tell them to do the right thing and keep the healthy competition on.
I will simply state what is most appropriate at this time: a need to control what one does not know is a pure reflection of ego based arrogance and of course we all know that arrogance is ignorances ugly twin. Nationally there are few if any deaths linked to the (key word) “Proper” use of natural therapies, but over 100,000 linked to the “proper” use of pharmaceuticals. To make perfect sense, our bodies are of organic origin, just like the trees in our yards. When my trees are sick they get nutrients, not bastardized versions of. These bills wreak of a desire to capitolize on a good thing. Taking away a persons right to choose the type of health care they trust is a violation in many ways: for some it’s personal preference, for other’s it is psychologically based, for some religious, some a combination of all. I know through personal experience (have treated myself primarily holistically for 31 years and have to date no diagnosed or treated maladies), I also know professionally bc I am a Naturopath, practicing freely without licensure as a practitioner in CA since 2002. I have helped people heal physically and spiritually by listening to their needs, communicating with their conventional health care providers when necessary, but never losing touch with human rights. These bills with the agenda to suppress are a violation. People who seek alternative/complementary therapies want people who understand the complexities of their needs on all levels, not someone with general sideline knowledge.
Hey there Snowtop
Bright Shining One…well, thank you for that. Very cute! At least you made me laugh. I admit that I try to set a good example for others. and try never to post anything that wounds or injures. Just good infomation …mostly rhetorical, with the intention to get others to think about the obvious. Believe me I think about it…and it often keeps me awake at night. I was basically trying to liven things up a bit and would have to say I was very successful–even to a point beyond my expectations. I think that the forums would best serve us all though if we stayed with the topic and refrained from obvious subtle insults. blessings~ Bobbi
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In 2001 I went in to have a stent inserted where my Femoral Arteries branched off from my Aorta. I waited 12 years for this specific stent to be developed (in the shape of a pair of pants). The Dr. told me he could do this. I had the stents installed and two months later my legs got so bad I could not walk more than a couple of steps. He then told me I needed a double bypass (Aorta, Femoral to Femoral Bypass). The stents had occluded. I let him do this and in a few months the same thing happened. I later found he had lied to me and put the old stents in (two single piece stents). I found this out when I went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. There my doctor said I would need a cross bypass (Femoral to Femoral). At this point I asked the doctor point blank, will Chelation Therapy help clean out my arteries? He told me if I had been there two weeks earlier it would work, but not now. So again I believed the doctors and let them do the surgery. I mean, who would know better than the Mayo Clinic in Rochester!!!!! Needless to say that I have been disabled for the last 10 years now with only 10% circulation. The legs plug up about each year to a 1 1/2 years. I now have chelation therapy done at an out of pocket cost of about $4,000 for 35 sessions (Insurance or Medicare won’t pay). This is done at a “homeopathic” facility. It keeps my legs 10% open so the “physicians” don’t cut them off! Now Dr. Keith, you may have a scroll of degrees, but I think everyone will agree YOU ARE WELL TAUGHT, BUT YOU ARE NOT VERY WELL EDUCATED!!! When the wolves tend the hen houses you got a serious problem.