The Medical Freedom Channel

Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. [R-TX] has introduced a very important piece of legislation called the Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117. This act protects your right to know the truth about the positive effects natural products can have for you. The FDA currently restricts truthful information (Called “health claims”) to “structure function claims”. This means that you are not permitted to hear what scientists or clinical experience have to say about a supplement. … [T]he FDA applies a totally biased standard to health claims BASED IN SCIENCE to supplements. Dr. Paul says this is unfair and violates your health freedom. Please take a moment to go to the special page set up to allow you to send your comments and ask your Congressman to become a co-sponsor of this important pro-health freedom legislation. (06/18/07)

http://tinyurl.com/29xcwj

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Your humble editor [also Rational Review (and Progressive) News Digest editor] Steve Trinward joins host Pat Gorman on Free Market News Network’s new “Wake Up America” Internet radio program. The topic: How individuals, as well as business owners, can drive real health care reform by opting out of traditional forms of health insurance (aka “insulation”), and forging their own pathways to prevention and wellness. Noon Eastern time on Free Market News Network. [live stream] (05/24/07)

http://fmnn.com/pat-Gorman.asp

“With all the new advances in birth control, are women really using the contraception option that works best for their current lifestyle and lifestage? The National Women’s Health Resource Center (NWHRC) has just launched its new Contraception Corner within their online Reproductive Health Center to help women navigate through the latest choices and determine the best birth control choice for them. The Contraception Corner features articles, an expert question and answer column and an interactive tool kit that includes information on [multiple topics]. (posted 05/17/07)

http://www.healthywomen.org/contraception

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“Rep. Ron Paul (along with Reps. Rosco Bartlett, Dan Burton, John Duncan and Christopher Shays) has reintroduced the Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117. This is a true health-freedom bill that the NHF has lobbied for, and it deserves the support of the health-freedom community. For years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have continued to censor and engage in heavy-handed attempts to restrict access to supplements and educational information for Americans. This bill would stop the FDA from censoring truthful claims about the curative, mitigative, or preventative effects of dietary supplements. A grass-roots advocacy letter-writing campaign is needed to help the NHF’s lobbying efforts to educate Congressional members on the need for this legislation…. As of May 2, 2007, the bill has been referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Click link for more information, to send letters to Congress, or to download the bill.” (posted 05/17/07)

www.thenhf.com/government_affairs_federal.html

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“The FDA has moved the deadline from April 30, 2007 to May 29, 2007 for public comments to the FDA document 2006D-0480 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. This extension provides us time to execute the most effective strategy, which is to prepare and deliver a reasoned, specific and technically accurate response that covers the law and case history that delineates the FDA’s role, power and authority in these areas.” (04/25/07)

www.healthfreedom.net

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“You could be eligible for government health insurance and not even know it. ‘Many don’t know there are programs like Healthy Families, for example, where a family of four can earn up to $60,000 and still qualify their children for comprehensive health care,’ said Philip Lebherz of The Foundation for Health Coverage Education (FHCE), a nonprofit organization. Studies indicate that nearly a third of an estimated 45 million uninsured Americans are eligible for government-sponsored health insurance programs and don’t know about them. U.S. residents in need of health insurance should contact the Uninsured Help Line at (800) 234-1317 for more information.” [editor’s note: Posting this, in a blog devoted to free-market solutions, may seem inappropriate; however, if all who “qualify” for assistance were using it (as a wellness-prevention mechanism), it could make things work better (and cheaper) for those who do not! - SAT] (04/14/07)

http://tinyurl.com/yukjeo

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“American Assn. for Health Freedom/Health Freedom Foundation rarely asks you to take action on a bill BEFORE it is even introduced, but occasionally we come across a piece of legislation that we consider so horrendous that we must act before it is even introduced. Unfortunately, Senators Kennedy (D/MA) Burr (R/NC) and Roberts (R/KS), among others are considering legislation that would severely restrict and possibly deny your access to critical medications. Act today to protect patient access to compounded medicines.” (04/10/07)

http://www.healthfreedom.net/

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This Adobe Acrobat pdf file contains a rundown of the various mandated add-ons required in the states, which CAHI declares are a major factor in the continuing skyrocketing costs of healthcare.

http://www.cahi.org/cahi_contents/resources/pdf/MandatesInTheStates2007.pdf

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“The Honest Food Guide (HFG) is now available for downloading free of charge and is: Free from the corruption and influence of various food industries (dairy, beef, junk foods, etc.); Designed to benefit you, not Big Business. Offers genuine nutritional information, not watered-down information designed to boost the sale of milk, beef and grains.” (03/28/07)

http://www.honestfoodguide.org/

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“This is a feature-length movie in development that explores the ethics and realities of a government take over the medical profession, such as: • Should doctors be imprisoned if they accept payment for their services from patients? • Should the government determine who gets medical care? • Do individuals in countries with “universal health care” really get better care? • Is it true that 46 million Americans are uninsured? • Are big pharmaceutical companies the problem or big government programs? SICK AND SICKER will investigate whether government intervention in the U.S. medical system is the cause of, or the solution to, our problems and whether Canada is really the health care utopia that politicians tell us it is. Criticisms of the U.S. medical system will be analysed and solutions will be discussed with authors and experts across the political spectrum. But this won’t be a dry documentary that will put you to sleep. Logan Darrow Clements will bring the abstract concepts to life in dramatic and surprising ways. If he can show how a monkey with darts can beat the investment return of Social Security then you know it will be a movie you won’t forget. But this movie will not be made unless you help. Here’s how .” (03/17/07)

http://www.sickandsickermovie.com/

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