Health Freedom

Tell the feds: Hands off our medical records!

The Institute for Health Freedom has a great primer on a proposed rule from the bureacrats at the Department of Health and Human Services in DC.  HHS wants to force doctors to create and share electronic medical records of their patients without patient consent.  HHS is taking public comments on the rule until Monday.  IHF has all the details including how to send in your comments to HHS:

American Rally for Personal Rights

May 26 2010 15:00

The American Rally for Personal Rights
(Chicago: Wednesday, May 26, 2010)

We believe in the rights to life, liberty, and personal security for ourselves and our children.

We demand the universal human rights standard of informed consent for all medical interventions. Compulsory vaccination cannot be legally and morally justified.

John McCain files bill attacking your access to supplements

The following alert is from the Alliance of Natural Health.  Check out their action-alert contact form here

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.

U.S. House told: Support transparency in health care legislation

January 20, 2010

Dear Representative:

On behalf of an ideologically diverse coalition of millions of Americans, we write to strongly urge that you sign the discharge petition for H. Res. 847. Introduced by Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL), this petition would force a vote on a bipartisan "Sunshine Resolution" to call on Congress and the Obama Administration to conduct all negotiations surrounding landmark health care reform legislation "in full public view and not behind closed doors."

Health Care Reform as a Backdoor National ID by J. Bradley Jansen

One of the most troubling aspects of the bills is the individual mandate. Instead of merely reforming the system to make it easier to buy health insurance or even extend the government health care coverage to more people, Congress seems intent to initiate a National ID under the guise of health care reform.

Full Article-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-bradley-jansen/health-care-reform-as-a-b_b_400725.html

Flu Vaccine Requirement for Health Workers Is Lifted

The Paterson administration backed away on Thursday evening from a health regulation that would have compelled hundreds of thousands of health care workers and hospital volunteers to be vaccinated for seasonal and swine flu.

The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana

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