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The Honorable Representative:______________________________
Ohio House of Representatives Fax:
PLEASE SUPPORT H.B. 580
THE OHIO CONSUMER HEALTH FREEDOM BILL
Dear Representative: ___________________________________ ________2008
I respectfully urge you to join Rep. John Adams by supporting and voting for H.B. 580, the Ohio Consumer Health Freedom Bill. As an informed consumer, I want the freedom to make my own choices about my health care, including the right to choose from both licensed and unlicensed health care practitioners in Ohio.
My access to traditional healers and practitioners in Ohio is being threatened because the Medical Practice Act and the Dietitians Act make it a crime for complementary and alternative health care providers to practice their professions without a license, even when there is no harm or risk of harm to Ohio citizens.
H.B. 580 would protect consumer access to options and exempt unlicensed practitioners as long as they disclose their education and the fact that they are not “MDs” or “Dietitians” or other licensed practitioners, and as long as they avoid prohibited conduct such as surgery, administering prescription drugs, or recommending discontinuance of drugs prescribed by a licensed practitioner.
Six states already have health freedom laws that allow unlicensed practitioners to practice freely and to protect the consumer’s choice. These are Minnesota, California, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Idaho.
H.B. 580 would protect my access to thousands of complementary and alternative practitioners in Ohio. Please allow me the right to select the alternative health care practitioners of my choice by supporting and voting YES for H.B. 580.
PLEASE SUPPORT AND VOTE YES FOR H.B. 580 TO PROTECT MY FREEDOM OF CHOICE!
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