MLM company posts another MNHLRP alert. Please fight back and support SF 1520!

Courtesy of the Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation, paid by the Natural Sunshine Products.
Your friendly Utah Multi-Level Marketing Diet Supplement Corporation that cares so much about wellbeing of Minnesotans that it chooses to mess with it. Interestingly enough, the naturopathic doctors ARE licensed in Utah. The NSP chooses not to muddy its own house and hires mercenaries such as Karen Studders and Boyd Landry to do its dirty work elsewhere.
As usual "sample letter" below makes no sense.
The style is agonizing, the logic is nonexistent, and the tone is excruciatingly painful.
It simply defies explanation.
The software shrunk the fonts down to fit into the confines of this blog, but the original uses
the BIGGEST fonts available, follow the link below if your eyes hurt, because reading this is much too painful already.
Large parts of this "alert" repeat verbatim the letter Sue Mills circulated to the Homeopaths.
Both she and the MNHLRP refused to explain their position.

http://www.sunshinehealthfreedomfoundation.com/page/page/5629935.htm

**Minnesota Alert**

MINNESOTA HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT

April 22, 2008

Thank you for your help so far. This fight is not over yet! We’re calling on you once again! We plan to stop this bill!

HF 1724, Naturopathic Registration bill, is on the agenda for the House Finance Committee for Friday April 25th. Please attend the hearing and show your opposition!

Attend the hearing
Friday, April 25^th, 8:00 AM, Room 200 in the State Office Building

Pay parking available in the lot adjacent to the State Office Building and Transportation Building.

Please contact MNHLRP with any questions at 651.322.4542 or mnhlrp@charter.net

1. WRITE a letter or email (hand written letter is the best choice)

2. call the Representatives on the list and your own Rep.

Call House Info @ 651-296-2146

Here’s a link to find your rep:

http://geo.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/districts/start.html

4. attend the hearing

Please call 651.322.4542, or email to mnhlrp@charter.net , any comments from members of the House Finance Committee. This information is crucial in lobbying against HF 1724 in Minnesota. So that we may alert you more quickly in the future, please send me your e-mail address.

Sample Letter

Dear Representative [insert name] __________

PLEASE OPPOSE HOUSE FILE 1724

A BILL FOR NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR REGISTRATION.

Reasons to oppose this bill:

1) There is huge controversy over this bill in the natural health community. The concerns of consumers and natural health care practitioners have not been sufficiently addressed.

2) The bill purports to grant "title protection" to about 25 people. In reality the bill threatens the whole underpinning of the natural health community that practices under Minn.Stat. 146A.

3) The Minnesota legislature recognized that complementary and alternative health care practices are natural and do NOT require licensure because they do not pose harm . In 2000, Minn.Stat. 146A – The Complementary and Alternative Health Care Practices Act -- became law. The legislature has revisited this statute in 2004, 2005 and 2007, and fundamentally reaffirmed it.

HF 1724 jeopardizes whether "naturopathy" as practiced by "traditional naturopaths" will remain in the public domain -- where these complementary and alternative modalities are currently practiced by practitioners and openly accessed by consumers.

Originally, HF 1724 included the many practices of conventional medicine, and there truly was the possibility of harm, warranting registration. In the first 2008 committee hearing in February, at the House Health Licensing Subcommittee, the medical community stripped the bill of the majority of the proposed medical practices, leaving primarily natural health modalities in the scope of practice. These modalities do not rise to the level of harm requiring registration.

4) Also according to Minnesota law, the legislature must consider whether the citizens of the state are or may be effectively protected by other means. Minn.Stat. 146A established the Office of Complementary and Alternative Practices (OCAP) in the Health Dept. OCAP receives and investigates complaints and provides disciplinary action for prohibited acts. This law is working well. It requires that each practitioner in writing state that they are not licensed, and that they fully disclose their education in writing to each client. Minn.Stat. 146A identifies prohibited acts and mandates disclosure, thus ensuring that the public is protected.

5) FINANCIALLY There is no evidence that allowing these few practitioners to register will have a positive economic impact to the state.

The fiscal note numbers do not add up.

Historically, licensure, registration increases cost of health care.

6) Historically, licensure and registration has always been brought by a small group of people to secure their economic base and rarely comes from members of the public who seek protection.

In this case, the Minnesota Association of Naturopathic Physicians (MnANP), a chapter of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) , is the special interest group that is seeking a monopoly on the practice of naturopathy; the website for theMNANP equates "naturopathic medicine" with "naturopathy."

It is important to note that neither the public nor the Department of Health (with jurisdiction over 146A practitioners) is seeking to register Naturopaths. A special interest group is asking to register some "naturopathic physicians."

Both the House and the Senate authors have unequivocally stated that next year they will introduce licensure for this group of people, further threatening complementary and alternative health care practitioners practicing now safely under 146A , and consumers seeking their services.

Please stop this now!!!!!!!!!!!

Respectfully,

[your name, address, and phone number]

Remember: this will be a lengthy battle – the MNHLRP will be calling on you again to voice your opinion to the legislature. If you have any questions, feel free to call us here at 651.322.4542 or email to mnhlrp@charter.net