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2009

• YouTube: CCHC President testifies against Minnesota single-payer legislation.
• Government-Issued Prescription Tracking Pads Proposed in Minnesota

• • MN House Railroad Baby DNA Bill to Passage (3/17/09)
  • A Win for Baby DNA & Families (3/16/09)
  • Packed press conference to protect medical record privacy and patient control (3/19/09)

• CCHC's public comments on MN Health Department's plan to collect and analyze private medical records ("encounter data") of all Minnesotans
  
• CCHC Genetic Information Minority Report - Sent to MN Dept. of Administration, 12/13/08
  
  • MN Department of Health Comments on Final Report - Asks for Access to Everyone's DNA (see page four), dated 12/15/08
• Why Patient Consent Should be Required for the Governor's Genetic Research Proposal

2007

• 05/11/07: CCHC Sends Letter to Govenor Pawlenty
• 05/09/07: CCHC, Citizens, and Legislators Ask Governor & Legislative Leadership to Protect Individual Healthcare Rights. CCHC asks that five "NOT" provisions not be found in next HHS bill.
• 04/19/07: CCHC Asks Governor Pawlenty to Withdraw the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Legislation
  

  The Exchange - Why Minnesotans Should be Concerned

• 03/16/07: MN Health Committee Tables Online Medical Records Bill after CCHC Testifies
  

  CCHC Testimony on Online Medical Records and Need for Patient Consent

• 02/08/07: CCHC Testimony on MN House "Children's Health Security Act"
• Minnesota's Health Care Provider Tax - $1.6 billion and rising


• Televised Testimony
• 03/30/07: - CCHC testifies on Health Plans Interfering in Medical Decisions using "Consultation"
  Requirement for CT Scans and MRIs (HHS Finance)- click on part 2, beginning at 1:32:28
• 03/30/07: - CCHC Testifies on Opt-out Requirement for Organ Donation. Calls it a Move toward Conscription
  of Body Parts (HHS Finance) - click on part 3, beginning at 22:45
• 03/05/07: - CCHC Testifies on Government Data Collection on Unsuspecting New Moms (SF 434) - go to
  1:11:49
• 03/06/07 - CCHC Testifies on Taxpayer Cost of Government Dependency & Online Medical Records Mandate
  (SF 2) - go to 1:29:01
• SENATE VIDEO ARCHIVES - for all viewing options

2006

• 07/31/06: CCHC Says: "The Public should protest Govenor Pawlenty's QCare initiative"
• 05/17/06: CCHC Hails Defeat of MN Senate's Prescription Electronic Reporting System
• 05/11/06: Minnesota House Says Yes to Government Medical Decision-Making and Tracking Bureaucracy
• 03/09/06: Minnesota Governor Needs Better Health Care Agenda
• 02/15/06: MN ADVERSE EVENTS REPORT 2006: Excellence of Care Comes Through
• 01/26/06: Pro-Privacy View Excluded from Today's e-Health Privacy Discussion at MN Health Department
• 01/17/06: CCHC ASKS: "Where's the Beef in Legislative Hearings on Health Care Solutions?"

2005

• 07/13/05: MN Legislators Put Bureaucrats at Bedside
• 06/09/05: MN Senate Proposal to Governor Needs "Truth in Advertising"
• 05/12/05: CCHC NEWS CONFERENCE: Minnesota Citizens Say "No Bureaucrats at the Bedside"
• 04/22/05: MN House Dismisses Consideration of Ethics in Genetic Research
• 04/11/05: House Bill will Eviscerate Medical Privacy of Minnesotans
• 02/14/05: Governor and Mayo Clinic Decline Open Discussion of Genetic Research Plan
• 02/10/05: Citizens' Council on Health Care Raises Medical and Genetic Privacy Concerns at Hearings Today
  and Monday
• 01/18/05: Will Patient Consent be Required for Minnesota's Genomic Research Initiative?

2004

• "Cookbook Medicine": Legislators remove decisions from the hands of patients/doctors.