The Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation posted a new alert on behalf of the MNHLRP,
http://www.sunshinehealthfreedomfoundation.com/page/page/5629935.htm
There is not a shred of reason or truth in this alert, same as all the others.
The Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation is a front for the Nature Sunshine Products Inc., one of the largest diet supplement multi-level marketing companies in the world.
Please send the message to the multi-level marketers from Utah to butt out of Minnesota's affairs!
Please support SF 1520!!
Text in full, with comments in blue:
MINNESOTA HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT
May 1, 2008
DID YOU KNOW????
Your right to practice and receive natural health product and therapy is in jeopardy? There are bills currently in session that are jeopardizing our rights!
Attend a free public meeting to hear the truth - read the bills - ask questions.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7TH FROM 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Valley View Middle School
8900 Portland Avenue South
Bloomington, MN 55420
Pre-Registration Recommended
by calling 651-322-4542 or emailing mnhlrp@charter.net
Don't Wait Until It's Too Late
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WEDNESDAY MAY 1, 2008
Dear Concerned Citizens:
We have reached a crucial stage in our important fight to stop the threat presented by Senate File 1520 -- a bill for naturopathic registration with licensure to be sought next year. Your personal help is needed NOW!
We need you to make personal calls to the offices of the following state Senators and ask to leave a message that you called to oppose SF 1520, the bill authored by Senator Patricia Torres Ray to register certain naturopaths and permit them to exclusive use of the term “doctor”. We believe the bill would do harm to some of the traditional complementary and alternative health care practices community.
Please ask to leave a short, respectful courteous message with the Senator’s assistant or on their voice mail. Calling the number after hours and leaving a voice mail message is perfectly acceptable.
Your work really matters! If you can make 20 phone calls, you can be a critical part of stopping this bill!
A work group could provide licensed and unlicensed practitioners
What licensed practitioners?
the incentive to sit down, discuss, and evaluate the appropriate level of education, training and regulation (registration or licensure) needed for naturopathic physicians So that people who have no valid educational credentials can dictate what constitutes "appropriate level of education and training" to those who graduated from the only educational institutions recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Education as accredited to grant "Naturopathic Doctor" and "Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine"degrees?
who seek to practice naturopathic medicine, while ensuring that naturopathy and the other complementary and alternative health care practices (CAP) remain in the public domain, and can be practiced by traditional naturopaths and other unlicensed complementary and alternative practitioners.SF1520 clearly states that there are no restrictions on anyone who wishes to practice naturopathic modalities.
YOUR MESSAGE IS:
“I/We oppose Senate File 1520, the natural health care regulation bill. Further study and agreement among the affected parties is needed for any legislation to be appropriate and acceptable to practitioners and consumers. The bill in its current form must be opposed unless it is replaced with an interim working group”.
One of the "affected parties", the MNHLRP is run by a group that completely opposes any kind of regulation at all. "The working group" proposal is a gimmick to kill the SF 1520. Please support the naturopathic doctors and SF 1520!
list of the Senate Finance committee is above.
If you need more background, please see the one page summary of our position that is being used at the Capitol that is set out below.
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SF Naturopathic Doctor Registration Bill – 1520/HF 1724
1. Why is this bill so controversial?
Citizens and practitioners are concerned that the real intent behind this registration bill is to remove naturopathy and many of the modalities practiced safely under existing law from the list of complementary and alternative health care practices (CAP) that unlicensed providers can offer. This concern is based upon the following facts:
v The bill contains a broad scope of practice which overlaps into other licensed and unlicensed practice areas.
(1) This overlap has not been vetted with unlicensed CAP practitioners and
(2) Amendments to clarify this scope of practice have been refused by the proponents.
v The bill originally was introduced as a licensure bill.
v The authors and the proponents have stated that they wish “naturopathic physicians” to be licensed under Minnesota law. Recent bill introductions indicate a clear intention to limit who can practice naturopathy.
v Citizens and unlicensed CAP practitioners who vigorously oppose this bill desire to continue to access and provide “naturopathy”, as practiced by traditional naturopaths for centuries which “does no harm”. Traditional naturopaths have no desire to be trained in or to prescribe prescription drugs and/or perform surgical techniques. They should be permitted to continue to serve the public in their respective careers and modalities without fear or interference of a creeping registration/licensure campaign.
2. a working group is the most sensible way to move forward:
The naturopathic physicians desire to be licensed, with oversight by the Medical Board, practice naturopathic medicine, and to be able to use the title “doctor.” These 20 naturopathic physicians desire to perform invasive medical practices i.e., surgery, prescribing prescription drugs, and childbirth, all of which warrant further regulation (registration or licensure) by the State).
Throughout the progress of this bill in both houses more questions have arisen than have been answered. More and more interested parties are becoming aware of the legislation and expressing their concerns. To avoid what has happened in this process, the Legislature passed Chapter 214 requiring extensive study before such legislation can proceed.
A work group could provide licensed and unlicensed practitioners the incentive to sit down, discuss, and evaluate the appropriate level of education, training and regulation (registration or licensure) needed for naturopathic physicians who seek to practice naturopathic medicine, while ensuring that naturopathy and the other complementary and alternative health care practices (CAP) remain in the public domain, and can be practiced by traditional naturopaths and other unlicensed complementary and alternative practitioners.
Sincerely,
Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project
651-322-4542
mnhlrp@charter.net
1 comment:
I don't understand this blog...
Are you NOT in support of the bill because you have an invested interest? Did you get a "degree" from a diploma mill? I'm a ND student at NCNM and fully support any attempt to license properly trained ND's in all unlicensed states. Oregon law is the perfect example where we are allowed to do minor surgery, IV therapy, and prescribe some pharmacological meds.
The goal: fuller scope of practice for properly trained ND's! If the "un-d's" are a casualty of the process, they have only themselves to blame... How can you call yourself a doctor with little or no clinical experience and a doctorate degree through distance education. If it's truly all about the patients, you will be happy to support this modernization of your healthcare in Minnesota.
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