The personal medical freedoms of Americans have been in many ways on the decline well before the signing of the PPACA last March and the result is often, tragically, lost lives. Patients looking to innovative, possibly life-saving medical treatments are met by bureaucratic red tape created by government agencies like the FDA and state medical boards. In this podcast, Benjamin Barr, J.D. of the Wyoming Liberty Group discusses with Michael Ostrolenk an innovative solution to resecure our lost rights – Health Care Freedom Zones.
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For Independence Day, Physicians Should Sign Physicians’ Declaration of Independence
Go here to sign the Declaration: http://www.aapsonline.org/medicare/doi.htm
When in the Course of Human Events, it becomes necessary for one Profession to dissolve the Financial Arrangements which have connected them with Medicare, Medicaid, assorted Health Maintenance Organizations, and diverse Third Party Payers and to assume among the other Professions of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Continue reading
AAPS Supports Health Freedom Acts
This week AAPS wrote to members of Congress to ask them to support H.R. 3394 and H.R. 3395. These bills known respectively as the “Freedom of Health Speech Act” and the “Health Freedom Act” seek to limit the Federal Government from over-regulating dietary supplements.
For more information on these two bills read the two letters from AAPS copied below and click here to listen to Jim Turner explain to AAPS’ Michael Ostrolenk why the government’s powers to regulate dietary supplements should not be expanded.
Also, please contact your member of Congress to ask them to support H.R. 3394 and 3395. You can find your representative’s contact information at http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml.
AAPS Supports H.R. 3394 “Freedom of Health Speech Act”
Dear Representative:
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a national, non-partisan professional association of physicians in all specialties founded in 1943, supports H.R. 3394 “Freedom of Health Speech Act”
H.R. 3394 prohibits the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from investigating and acting against an entity for communicating the health benefits of its products unless the FTC presents clear and convincing evidence that an advertisement for a dietary supplement or dietary ingredient is false and that, but for the false advertising content, the consumer would not have made the purchase at the price paid. Additionally, it requires the FTC, if a claimed health benefit is alleged to be false advertising, to additionally establish, based on expert scientific opinion and published peer-reviewed scientific evidence, that the claim is false.
We strongly encourage you to vote for health freedom and informed consumers and co-sponsor H.R. 3394 “Freedom of Health Speech Act”
Sincerely,
Jane M. Orient, M.D. Executive Director
AAPS supports Health Freedom Act – H.R. 3395
Dear Representative,
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a national, non-partisan professional association of physicians in all specialties founded in 1943, supports H.R. 3395 “The Health Freedom Act”.
Health Freedom Act – Prohibits the federal government from preventing the use of a claim describing any nutrient in a food or dietary supplement as mitigating, treating, or preventing any disease, disease symptom, or health-related condition, unless in a final order following a trial on the merits a federal court finds clear and convincing evidence based on qualified expert opinion and published peer-reviewed scientific research that: (1) the claim is false and misleading in any material respect; and (2) there is no less speech restrictive alternative to claim suppression that can render the claim non-misleading.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food or dietary supplement for which a claim characterizing the relationship of a nutrient to a disease or health-related condition not to be included in the definition of “drug” solely because of such claim.
Revises dietary supplement labeling exemptions to prohibit the government from preventing distribution of a publication concerning the sale of a food or dietary supplement unless: (1) it establishes that a claim contained in the publication names the specific food or supplement sold and represents that the food or supplement mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease; and (2) the claim is proven to be false and misleading in any material respect by final order of a federal court in accordance with this Act.
We strongly encourage you to vote for health freedom and informed consumers and co-sponsor H.R. 3395 “The Health Freedom Act.”
Sincerely,
Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director
Physicians Urged to Declare Independence from Government, Other Third Parties
The Single Party finally bought enough votes to get the Senate-passed healthcare reform through the House, but its victory celebrations may be premature, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). AAPS has been a voice for independence of doctors and patients since “healthcare reform” was first promoted in 1943. Continue reading
Tell Senate to oppose S. 3002 – Protect Access to Dietary Supplements
Update: While the Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Senator McCain has withdrawn his support from S. 3002, it is still important to keep the pressure on the Senate to make sure they do not pass this bill.
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