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Consumer-Driven Health Care
      MSAs are not FSAs are not HRAs
      Free the MSA
      Medical Savings Accounts - summarized
      Xerox offers $6,000 to employees for individual purchase of health insurance

Emergency Health Powers Act
     MN Health Powers Act Passes
     MN Public Loses Rights in Health Powers Conference Committee
     Medical Martial Law in Minnesota?
     CCHC Testifies to Constitutional Concerns In Minnesota Health Powers Act
     CCHC Closed Meeting Provision Attached to Anti-Terrorism Bill
     HHS Unveils 24/7 Plan to Track Patients
     "Freedom's Victory" Not Found in President's Pledge to Public Health
     CDC's Model State Emergency Health Powers Act Goes Too Far

Evidence-Based Medicine
     Bureaucrats at Bedside
     CCHC REPORT: "How Technocrats are Taking Over the Practice of Medicine: A Wake-up Call to the American
     People"
     EBM May Lead to Rationing
     "The National Quality Forum is setting standards for primary care"
     (American Medical News, January 12, 2004) - CCHC quoted
      Practice Guidelines (Directives)

Genetics
      England considers DNA profiling at birth
      Newborn Screening

Government Programs
      Medicare
      MinnesotaCare
      Government Health Care Diagram

Health Care Workforce
      Medical School Applications Falling
      Want a Nurse, Get in Line!

Health Disparities

Health Savings Accounts
      Answering Your Questions About Health Savings Accounts (CAHI)
      IRS - Fact Sheet on HSAs
      IRS - Q & A on HSAs

HMOs & Managed Care
      HMO Guidelines or New Mandates?
      Blame Congress for HMOs
      HMO Rise Driven by Government, Not Market
      Linda Peeno, MD testifies before Congress on HMO denial of care
      HMO Diagram

Medicare
      Medicare: Need an Escape Plan, Not a Rescue Plan
      17 Troubling Medicare Facts

Medical Practice Guidelines
      HMO Guidelines or New Mandates?
      Evidence-Based Medicine

Medical Records
      Who Sees Your Medical Record? A Flow Chart of Disclosures
      Access to Medical Records in Minnesota
      MN Health Department Interpretation of Federal HIPAA Privacy Rule
      Maximum Charges to Copy Medical Records in Minnesota

National Health Systems
      Kennedy Pushes Universal Health Care for All
      Physician Groups Declare"Right" to Health Care an Issue for 2000
      Government: A Wedge Between Patient and Doctor
      National systems around the world experience access problems

Newborn Genetic Testing (AKA "Newborn Screening")

     CITIZEN PETITION TO GOVERNOR TIM PAWLENTY - BABY DNA

Patient Care
      HMO Guidelines or New Mandates?
      Government: A Wedge Between Patient and Doctor
      Institute of Medicine Recommends Tracking of Medical Errors
      National systems around the world experience access problems

Twila Brase, CCHC president, presenting on medical research and deidentification of data at the National Press Club for the release of the Institute for Health Freedom's Gallup poll results on medical privacy, September 26, 2000.

Patient Privacy
      HIPAA - the Federal Medical Privacy Rule
      2003 Minnesota Law allows Parents to refuse Newborn Genetic Testing
      Medical Confidentiality Strategies
      Government Surveillance
      Identification Numbersand Data Systems
      Children and Schools
      Database Integration
      Immunization Registries
      Government Smart Cards
      The Health Passport Program
      Reports and Rulings
      National Immunization Registry Initiative
      Administrative Simplification Act
      Federal Privacy Act of 1974
      Social Security Numbers
      Shalala's Privacy Recommendations

Population Health Care

Provider Tax
   Health Care Access Fund Balance Statement 2003 - footnote 6 explains plan to transfer money to General Fund
   "Increase" In Minnesota's Health Care Tax Set For 2004
   Summary of CCHC Report on the MinnesotaCare Provider Tax, 2000
   Provider Tax Poster (note: tax rises to 2 percent on 1/1/04)

Rationing
   CCHC's Nine Arguments Against Adopting the Oregon Health Plan in MN, 5/18/03
   Oregon "Health Care Rationing" Plan - CCHC formatted list of health care services, 4/29/03
   Oregon Health Plan Prioritization of Health Services list - actual list (begins at page 399 of state report)
   World Health Organization advocates health care rationing
   "Evidence-Based Medicine" guidelines may lead to rationing
   National health care systems experience health care access problems
   Health Care Rationing Series (WSJ) - republished by St. Paul Pioneer Press

Schools & Health Care
     Letter to Hillary Clinton includes integration of Health and Schools
     Coordinated School Health - a project of the Department of Children, Families, and Learning
     Schools to bill third-parties (HMOs, insurers, and Medicaid) for special education health care services
     Health Plan enters school in public-private partnership
     Psychological testing in schools
     Using the Student Social Security Number to count and track children
     Speech by Pennsylvania State Representative Sam Rohrer (R) - Medicalization of Schools

Vaccinations
     CDC Warns against use of smallpox vaccine, a report from 2002 public hearing in St. Louis, MO.
     (Disclaimer: CCHC does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of this report).
     National Vaccine Information Center's 2002 Special Report: Smallpox and Forced Vaccination: What
     Every American Needs to Know