The SCHIP program is an incremental step on the way to government-run health care for everyone. President George W. Bush on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, ABC News, 9/27/07
A pending bill on the floor of the Minnesota House and Senate will strip citizens of genetic privacy
and DNA ownership rights. Today, a state genetic privacy law requires
informed parent consent for government testing, ownership and research
on the DNA of the newest Minnesota residents. The Minnesota Department
of Health wants to eliminate the informed consent requirements. A bill
to remove consent requirements for government ownership and genetic
research will soon be voted on by the Minnesota House and Senate.
Thus far, the state of Minnesota has illegally collected and claims
ownership to the DNA of 780,000 children (soon to be voting adults) and
has provided the DNA of 42,210 children to genetic researchers without
parent consent. Approximately, 73,000 children are born in Minnesota
every year. About 4.2 million children are born across the nation. All
of them are losing their genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights.
Listen in to an interview of Twila Brase, president of CCHC, as she
discusses what's at stake for all citizens in the pending legislation.
The Health Insurance Exchange bill Threatens Free-Market Medicine
Health care legislation now proposed by Minnesota's House and
Senate Democrats includes the Governor's Health Insurance Exchange,
along with a vast array of new government bureaucracies. While the
fiscal impact is unknown of the entire bill is unknown, the Exchange's
impact on free-markets in insurance and medicine is clear. Listen in to
recent interviews with Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Delano) and Twila Brase,
president of CCHC.
In fact, the EBM guidelines are not guidelines at all. These so-called “best practices” are poised to become coercive mandates imposed by government agencies and third-party payers with political and financial incentives to ration health care-and the power to do it”
You are not required to sign any form acknowledging your receipt of a health care facility's "Notice of Privacy Practices." Federal law only requires the facility to make a good faith effort to obtain your signature. Contrary to popular belief, signing this form does not provide you with any privacy or other rights...and could be used against you. if you ever declare that your privacy rights have been violated. The form only tells you how many people can have access without your consent.
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