Guidelines for meeting with your legislator

Guidelines for meeting with your Lawmaker:

Call lawmaker's office and ask for the scheduler to set a date for a meeting in the district. You don't have to travel to Madison.
Select a restaurant with a meeting room for the gathering.
Practitioners and retailers bring your customers. Testify to lawmakers on health improvement using your methods. Tell stories - years of chronic health problems, regained health/vitality now, more productive, feel better, etc. This is powerful testimony lawmakers appreciate.
Greet your lawmaker, shake hands, look them in the eye and thank them for their time and other congratulations, won the election, etc.
Introduce yourself in detail, name, town where you live, practitioner or interested consumer. This is key: the lawmaker must know exactly who you are and what you represent, e.g., health freedom, no further regulation, etc.
If possible have another person go with you. If you forget an answer to a lawmakers question the other person may be able to fill in the gap. If you forgot the answer or can't think of it during the meeting say you will get back to them. After the meeting you can critique each others performance to make future presentations more clear.

Key Point of AB440, page 3, under exemptions:

3) a retailer that furnishes oral or written general* nutrition information about food and other goods;

(*Legal counsel "These exemptions are intended to make this legislation less exclusive, they don’t provide immunity to retailers or other unlicensed nutritionists, unless they are only providing “general information.” However, there is no definition of “general information” in the bill so there is some ambiguity there as well.")

Legal comments at SB115 hearing, companion bill to AB440: "Someone who is an alternative care provider cannot practice nutrition care services. They could use the term nutritionists by itself but could not practice dietetic nutrition care services."

Health Freedom Bill: See Diane Miller's (our national attorney) "Registration Not Warranted" (http://wihfc.com/registration_not_warranted.htm) for a full discourse on health freedom. Summary on last page. This will help you become fully versed on the issue.

One out of two visits for health care services are presently to alternative health care services. The most frequently used services are: relaxation techniques, herbal medicine, massage, chiropractic, folk remedies, energy healing, homeopathic, hypnosis, biofeedback and acupuncture.
Despite the widespread use of these modalities some may be in technical violation of medical licensing laws.
Few complaints in states that have the bill, is working great. Email synchaa@gmail.com for "No Complaints."
Freedom to choose health care is a basic right to privacy guaranteed by the US and Wisconsin Constitution.
As Allopathic Medical services become more centralized, monopolized and more expensive, low cost neighborhood services provided by unlicensed practitioners who do no harm are of great financial and social value for Wisconsin citizens.
Low cost services for consumers have been driven underground and are suppressed out of fear from prosecution by Medical Licensing Boards.
Medical Licensing An Obstacle to Affordable, Affordable, Quality Care: see September Cato Institute paper: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-621.pdf. WIHFC has received permission to make copies and distribute.
Unlicensed practitioners will perform within the guidelines of the bill, present clients their credentials and not hold themselves out to be medical doctors.

WDA bill: AB440

Current laws on the books protect citizens from harmful or life threatening advice. No further laws are required.
Food must remain in the public domain.
Foods are not drugs and do not require a licensure to discuss.
The WDA is trained for institutional settings, schools, hospitals not for individual assessment.
The WDA model is skewed toward refined carbohydrates, sugars and grains, which are responsible for the epidemic of diabetes and obesity in this country.
The WDA model reflects corporate sponsors, Coke/Pepsi, drug companies and processed food manufactures.
The WDA states the only difference between conventionally produced foods and organic foods is the way they are grown, no nutritional difference, pesticides and synthetic fertilizers used in production are OK.
Hundreds of ethnic and other dietary models would be illegal to teach, discuss or refer a book for reading if the WDA law is passed. Showing a movie about diet constituted unlicensed practice because any activity that might cause someone to change dietary habits is defined as the practice of dietetics.
Increased licensure fees occurred in Ohio (Dietitian licensure law since 1987) when licensed dietitians turned in anyone mentioning diet or nutrition and were distressed over a lost business opportunity: http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/article/222
In Ohio the Dietetics Board has not been able to produce one person who has been harmed by advice given by a non-dietitian. Examination of the files did not identify anyone who had been harmed either.

See Key Democrat Senators:

Senator Tim Carpenter: District 3, west and part of South Milwaukee, part of Greenfield. See map: http://www.legis.state.wi.us//Senate/sen03/Sdist03.pdf http://www.legis.state.wi.us/w3asp/contact/legislatorpages.aspx?house=Senate&district=3

Senator Robert Jauch: District 25, NW to Northern part of state, includes Barron, Washburn, Sawyer, part of Burnett, Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron counties. http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/sen25/news/District.asp

Senator Jeffrey Plale: District 7, Milwaukee east side, south from UW to, St. Francis, Cudahy, South Milwaukee, Oak Creek: map: http://www.legis.state.wi.us//Senate/sen07/Sdist07.pdf http://www.legis.wi.gov/senate/sen07/news/

Senator Fred Risser: Madison District 26 Madison area: http://www.legis.state.wi.us//Senate/sen26/Sdist26.pdf http://www.legis.state.wi.us/W3ASP/contact/legislatorpages.aspx?house=Senate&district=26

Senator Mark Miller: District 16, Dane County , Columbia County, Sauk County, http://www.legis.wi.gov/senate/sen16/news/miller/District.html

Senator David Hansen: District 30, Green Bay west around the bay north to Marinette: Howard , SUAMICO , PITTSFIELD , SUAMICO , Pulaski , Peshtigo, Marinette, Coleman, Pound, Oconto: see map: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ltsb/redistricting/Maps/sd30.pdf

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/senate/sen30/news/biography.htm