Upcoming legislation that will severely affect your health choices. ----- Original Message ----- From: Healthfreedom.net To: Paula Perry Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:41 PM Subject: Upcoming legislation that will severely affect your health choices.
AAHF/HFF 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. Send your letters today to your Senators with a copy going to Senators Kennedy, Burr, and Roberts. About the Bill Just as everybody has a unique fingerprint, so is our response to various pharmaceuticals and other healing modalities. No reasonable person can expect a mass produced pharmaceutical to address all the subtle nuances of varying human physiology - but that is not stopping Big Pharma, the FDA, and Congress from trying to take away your right to individualized medicine. If this legislation passes, federal regulators, not your doctor, will decide what medicines you can take. Do you really want to leave your customized medicine needs in the hands of bureaucrats in the government? We cannot stand idly by while our pharmacists and doctors are forced to become mere dispensers of a few heavily-advertised, one-size-fits-all pharmaceutical products. Among other things, the so-called Safe Drug Compounding Act of 2007 would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to: Broadly eliminate the availability of many critical, commonly compounded medications that many patients rely on, such as bioidentical hormones for women, hospice care treatments for the terminally ill and customized medicines for children. Determine when compounded medicines are needed - a decision that has always been and should always be made by doctors. Restrict the compounded medications your doctor can prescribe even if he or she determines you need them. According to the Washington, D.C. political magazine Congressional Quarterly, pharmaceutical manufacturers are in "high lobby mode" in support of this legislation. From what we understand, hospitals are staying silent, anticipating that they will be exempt from this bill. We are working with doctor groups, compounding pharmacist organizations, consumer groups, and women associations among others, but it's not enough. We are up against a highly organized, well-funded front and we need you to stop them. A Sample of Those Affected Menopausal women and andropausal men, the Autistic community, individuals living with HIV/AIDS, hospice patients, infants and young children with conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and people who are extremely allergic or sensitive to fillers, dyes, and additives in medicines will be left with no choice. What can you do? If you or someone you know depends on compounded medications, act now to stop this dangerous legislation! 1. Write your elected representatives in Congress. Use AAFH's easy-to-use tool to write your members of Congress. REMEMBER: It's critical that you personalize your letter. Tell your own story. Tell them how you rely on compounded medicines and what your life would be like without them. 2. Tell a friend. Even if your friends and relatives don't rely on compounded medicines themselves, they still have a loved one - you - who does. That's their story to tell. Please encourage them to tell their representatives in Congress. 3. Tell more friends. The best weapon we have in this fight is you. You are involved in the patient/doctor relationship. Yours is the story that Congress cannot ignore. The more people we can get to unite in support of compounded medicines, the better our chances of winning will be. 4. Show your support with a financial contribution and/or join AAHF today. In order to do all the things that we will need to do over the next few months (and particularly the next few weeks), we need funds. This is an unexpected fight and we need to act fast and we have to think outside of the box! 5. Keep updated! Listen to our lobbyist, Dr. William Duncan on the Deborah Ray show on April 4th in the afternoon - find out more information or listen online at www.healthytalkradio.com. Please get involved in this struggle - we can't do it without you. This issue is fundamentally about the right of the consumer to choose and the practitioner to practice. It will take a very large grassroots movement to make Congress sit up and hear us. It happened in 1994 with DSHEA and can happen again in 2007! Your voice does count. Please contact Congress today. Additional information and action items will be developed shortly. Please check our site frequently for more information (next to be posted on our website: flyers that you can print or request). Thank you for taking action. Best, Brenna Brenna Hill Executive Director Health Freedom Foundation and American Association for Health Freedom 4620 Lee Highway, Suite 210 Arlington, VA 22207 1.800.230.2762 Fax: 703.294.6380 www.healthfreedom.net P.S. Don't forget to JOIN, DONATE, TAKE ACTION, and TELL-A-FRIEND! Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. Tell-a-friend! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Healthfreedom.net. This message was sent to p...@zoomnet.net. Visit your subscription management page to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop ALL email from Healthfreedom.net, click to remove yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove or unsubscribe" in the subject line). No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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