March 13, 2008

ADA bill defeated!

Thanks to all for all who contributed time and money to

ensure Health Care Freedom in Wisconsin!!

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The Problem -

Did you know that

• Wisconsin consumers have no legislative protection that guarantees them access to complementary alternative health care?
  
  
• Complementary and alternative health care practitioners have no legislative protection for their much needed services?
  
  
• One out of  two Americans use complementary and alternative health services?
  
  
• Our state is losing revenue and jobs in complementary and alternative health services to nearby states that protect health freedom rights?
  
  

The Solution -

Legislation of Protect Our Freedom of Choice

1. Promote legislative reform giving people unhindered access to all health care information, services, treatments, and products that they deem beneficial for their own health and survival.
2. Promote legislative reform giving the right to practice to all licensed and unlicensed practitioners of all modalities of the healing arts including natural, alternative, and complementary care.
3. Promote legislative reform giving the right to licenses and unlicensed practitioners and health care educators to teach people all facets of maintaining good health using all modalities of the healing arts including natural, alternative and complementary care.
4. Promote legislative reform giving the right to licensed and unlicensed health care educators to instruct, and offer in-classroom and correspondence courses in all modalities of the healing arts including natural, alternative and complementary health care practices to students and apprentices.
5. Promote perpetual access, with out the need of a doctor’s prescription, to food supplements in potencies above the RDA, herbs, herbal products, essential oils, and all natural, alternative health care products.
6. Promote freedom to teach, without fear of being charged with violating the Wisconsin Health Professions Codes, and to be educated in all alternative health care modalities.

Some History -

In 1997, 42.1% of all Americans used alternative therapies (Eisenberg/Harvard study), with expenditures of $27 billion. Many of these Americans are residents of Wisconsin.

Equal access to complementary and alternative health care for consumers has become a national crisis. Seventeen states including Minnesota, Iowa, Rhode Island, California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York and New Jersey have either introduced or passed health freedom legislation to protect the consumers right to choose complementary and alternative health care providers.