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2009

• 06/29/09: President Obama Implies Support for Health Care Rationing...But Avoids Using the Word
• 06/25/09: MN Health Plans Begin Sending Private Medical Records to State's Data Warehouse in Maine
• 05/19/09: SUCCESS: Citizen Efforts Protect Genetic Privacy Law
• 05/15/09: Parent consent for storage and use of newborn DNA should be required
• 05/08/09: Citizens Petition Governor Pawlenty to not Repeal Genetic Privacy Rights
• 05/05/09: Will the MN House Vote to Repeal Genetic Privacy Rights at Birth?
• 04/29/09: NEWBORN GENETIC SCREENING: The New Eugenics?
• 04/08/09: MN Senate Committee Says NO to Bill that would Repeal Genetic Privacy Rights
• 03/24/09: House Committee Votes to Exempt Newborn Citizens from Minnesota's Genetic Privacy Law
• 03/11/09: Nine Families Sue State of Minnesota over Genetic Privacy Violations
  • Background/Pending Legislature on Baby DNA in Minnesota
• 02/24/09: Minnesotans Tell State Health Officials: Hold a public hearing!
• 02/13/09: Stimulus: What Transparency? Scramble, Scribbles, and Obstruction
• 02/13/09: Final Economic Stimulus Bill Permits Americans' Personal Health Information to Be Sold for Research and Public Health Purposes WITHOUT Patients' Consent
• 02/13/09: CCHC Report on Economic Stimulus & Patient Rights
• 02/10/09: Stimulus Bill Promises to Ration Medical Treatment and Call it "Effective Care."
• 01/29/09: CCHC releases "Newborn Rights" notification to assist parents of new babies during hospitalization
• 01/15/09: CCHC Urges Governor Pawlenty to Take Positive Action

• 12/10/08: CCHC calls on Governor Pawlenty to require health department compliance with state genetic privacy law for baby DNA
  (To Contact Governor Pawlenty)
• 11/19/08: Daschle pick signals Obama's plan to resurrect national health care
• 10/22/08: National Patient ID Would Violate Patient Privacy Rights
• 09/29/08: CCHC Releases New Report Challenging State Newborn Screening Programs
• 07/31/08: "Wired Act" Threatens Patient Care and Privacy
• 06/17/08: Eight Reasons Why Governor Pawlenty Should Veto the "Health Care Reform" Bill - SF 3780
• 05/20/08: MEDNET USA's Linking of Private Patient Data to National Health Information Network is a Violation of Privacy and Data Control Rights
  • CCHC Diagram of Record Locator Service (RLS)/Master Patient Index
  • What CCHC said in 2007 about the Record Locator Service
  • 2007 House votes on RLS (middle two columns)
• 05/20/08: Gov. Pawlenty Protects Genetic Privacy Rights Vetoes "DNA Warehouse" Bill
• 05/15/08: CCHC Asks Governor to Veto Baby "DNA Warehouse" Bill
  • Open Letter to Governor Tim Pawlenty - Baby DNA Bill
• 05/14/08: CCHC Delivers Pile of Petitions & Bunch of Business Cards to Governor Pawlenty
• 05/13/08: Less than Perfect: Governor Pawlenty's Health Care Reform Veto
• 04/17/08: MN House votes unanimously to gut the Minnesota Genetic Privacy Law
• 04/09/08: CCHC Asks President Bush to Veto National "DNA Warehouse" bill, S. 1858
• 04/01/08: MN Senate votes to warehouse all newborn citizen DNA for genetic research without parent consent
• 03/31/08: CCHC Asks Gov. Pawlenty not to balance the budget on the backs of the sick
• 03/27/08: CCHC tells Gov. Pawlenty thank you
• 03/21/08: CDC gives $38.1 million to build intrusive patient monitoring system
• 03/13/08: TODAY: CCHC to testify in opposition to legislation that legalizes a State "DNA Warehouse" and allows genetic research on children without consent
• 01/31/08: CCHC Issues Citizens' Report of Dissent on Governor's Health Care Transformation Task Force Recommendations
• 01/17/08: Minnesota's Adverse Events Reporting System: Unnecessary Diversion of Dollars from Patient Care

2007

• 12/14/07: March of Dimes Award to Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is a Political Ploy
• 12/11/07: MN GOP's Health Care Reform Proposal is the Right Message for Patients and Privacy
• 10/16/07: Governor Pawlenty’s Letter Reveals Plan to Eliminate Current Genetic Privacy Protections from
  Baby DNA

  Letter From Governor Pawlenty

• 10/04/07: National Children's Study Exploits Children;Threatens American Freedom and Industry
• 09/27/07: Governor Pawlenty Heads Down Wrong Road with Health Commissioner Finalists
• 09/12/07: MN Health Department Yanks Baby DNA Rule to Avoid Judge's Parent Consent Requirements
• 09/10/07: THREAT TO PATIENT PRIVACY: The Minnesota Health Information Exchange
• 08/15/07: Governor Pawlenty Failing to Act on Illegally Obtained Baby DNA
• 07/24/07: CCHC Press Release, July 24, 2007
• 07/12/07: CCHC Press Release - 7/12/07
• 07/23/07: Federal Proposal Threatens Patient Privacy and Patient Consent Rights
• 05/11/07: CCHC Sends Letter to Governor 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.
• 04/24/07: Quality measurement and pay-for-performance have major flaws, say speakers at World Health
  Care Congress
• 04/19/07: CCHC Asks Governor Pawlenty to Withdraw the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Legislation
• 04/10/07: Baby DNA Rule - Judge Supports Genetic Privacy Rights; Orders State Health Department to
  Correct "Defects"
• 04/10/07: Letter from Chief Administrative Law Judge
• 04/10/07: Key Rule Defects in Need of a Cure
• 03/16/07: MN Health Committee Tables Online Medical Records Bill after CCHC Testifies
• 01/17/07: CCHC's Reaction to Governor Pawlenty's SOTS Address...and Today's MDH Adverse Events Report
• 01/11/07: CBO Says: Free Market Can Negotiate Better Drug Prices than Government
• 01/08/07: CCHC Action Forces MN Dept of Health to Hold Public Hearing on Revision of Newborn Genetic
  Testing Rule

2006

• 12/11/06: Publishing Physician Death Statistics Threatens Patient Access to Innovative Care
• 11/14/06: CCHC Responds to Governor Pawlenty's Speech on Mass. Health Plan
• 10/20/06: Stolen Allina Medical Records: Just the Tip of the Privacy Breach Iceberg
• 10/03/06: Candidates for MN Governor have been Advised to Respond to Speaking Invitation by Sat.,
  October 7
• 09/29/06: Minnesota Hospital Price Check: Comparing Apples and Oranges
• 09/14/06: Federal Judge Says Parents Must Submit Children to State-Sponsored Genetic Testing at Birth
• 08/31/06: CCHC Asks Federal Group to Send Better Health Policy Recommendations to Congress
• 08/22/06: President Bush's Executive Order Intrudes on the Patient-Doctor Relationship
• 08/07/06: Blue Cross Blue Shield Database is "Big Health Surveillance"
• 07/31/06: CCHC Says: "The Public should protest Govenor Pawlenty's QCare initiative"
• 06/02/06: CCHC Resolution on Parent Consent for Newborn Genetic Testing Added to 2006 MN
  Republican Platform
• 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
• 05/02/06: More Patients Refuse to Sign Release of Medical Information Forms
• 04/10/06: CCHC Calls on Governor Romney Not to Sign "HillaryCare" into Massachusetts Law
• 03/09/06: Minnesota Governor Needs Better Health Care Agenda
• 02/15/06: MN ADVERSE EVENTS REPORT 2006: Excellence of Care Comes Through
• 02/09/06: Congress to Gut State Medical Privacy Laws?
• 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?"