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Letter to Governor Tim Pawlenty
May 25, 2005
Governor Tim Pawlenty
Office of the Governor
130 Capitol
St. Paul, MN 55155
Dear Governor Pawlenty,
In addition to the stack of petitions we delivered to you last year
on the "best practices" legislation (now the "evidence-based health
care guidelines" legislation - HF 1422), we are today delivering an
additional stack of petitions opposing the legislation (another 850
or so). This is the second year in a row our organization has
delivered petitions to your office. They are signed by concerned
citizens from all around the state.
After our delivery in May 2004, citizen petitions continued to arrive
at our office. We include these because we believe they were not part
of the petitions you received last year. And like those delivered
last year, we have placed them in a red binder.
Therefore, we are delivering petitions opposing the 2004 "best
practices" legislation (M.S. 62J.43), and petitions that oppose
making the "best practices" legislation permanent law by stripping
out the 2006 expiration date.
The public does not want government telling their doctors how to
practice medicine - or imposing reporting requirements and financial
penalties that will make it increasingly difficult for doctors to
practice in their patient's best interest.
CCHC is a free-market health care policy organization. As such, let
me take this opportunity to say that free-markets require small
governments. Free-market health care is free of government-imposed
treatment mandates, government surveillance of treatment decisions,
and government intrusion in medical records. Free-market health care
means patients, both private and public, hold dollars in their own
hands and make their own decisions about treatment, payment, and whom
they will or will not trust to treat or insure them.
Adopting the Kiscaden "evidence-based medicine" amendment in the
final HHS omnibus bill-expanding government authority in medical
decision-making-will make it more difficult for free-market medicine
to ever take hold in Minnesota.
We sincerely hope that you will keep the concerns of all these
citizens in mind as you consider final language for House File 1422,
the HHS omnibus finance bill. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Twila Brase RN
President
Cc:
House Speaker Steve Sviggum
Majority Leader Sen. Dean Johnson
Members of the Minnesota House
Members of the Minnesota Senate
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