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June 21, 2009

June Newsletter Posted

• “Uniquely American” Health Reform Should Preserve Freedom
• Three Health-Freedom Bills Introduced in Congress
• Act Now to Strengthen and Preserve Your Health Freedom and Privacy
  

June 18 , 2009

Patient Advocacy Groups Urge Greater Focus on Patients’ Choice and Privacy Rights in Health-Reform Debate

May 6 , 2009

May Newsletter Posted

• FTC Asks for Public Comment on Notification of Health Data Breaches
• Health-Insurance Mandate Could Lead to National ID and Loss of Privacy
• A Not So Happy Anniversary for the “Massachusetts Model”
  
  

April 27, 2009

Action Alert: Stop Congress from Ramming Through Health Reform Undemocratically Call Congress before Wednesday (4/29/09)

 

April 8, 2009

April Newsletter Posted

• Recipes: Medical Tyranny or Medical Freedom
• Let These Seniors Go
• Health-Insurance Mandate Leads to Government Control and Politicized Health Care

 

March 26, 2009

March Newsletter Posted

• A Positive Perspective on Health Privacy Rights
• How the Economic Stimulus Law Affects Your Health Privacy Rights
• Are We Heading Toward a Nationally Linked Electronic Health-Records Network? Take the National Health Information Highway Quiz
  
  

February 9 , 2009

February Newsletter Posted

• Economic Stimulus Bill Mandates Utilization of “an” Electronic Health Record for Every American by 2014
• Congress Needs to Add Opt-out and Consent Provisions to Health IT to Ensure Quality Health Care
• Notable & Quotable: HHS’s Comments on Privacy and Quality
  
  

January 14, 2009

January Newsletter Posted

• Economic Stimulus Package and Your Health Privacy
• HHS Secretary Confirmation Hearing: Questions Remain about How to Pay for Proposed Health-Care Expansions
• Lead Plaintiff in Medicare Lawsuit Asks for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction against SSA and HHS
  
  

December 31 , 2008

December Newsletter Posted

• Should Medicare Providers Be Forced to Use Electronic Medical Records?
• Blue Cross Mistakenly Discloses Private Health Information
• What Do Americans Think of Socialist Policies?
  
  

December 4 , 2008

November Newsletter Posted

• Preparing for Healthy Debate
• “Broad” Adoption of Electronic Health Records Forthcoming
• Media Watch: Important Facts about Medicare and its “Socialized Medicine” Label
• Arizona Proposition 101 Narrowly Defeated: 50.2 to 49.8 Percent
  
  

October 16 , 2008

October Newsletter Posted

• Lawsuit Challenges Coercion of Seniors into Medicare
• Four in Ten Voters See No Advantage in Candidates’ Health Care Plans
• Medical Licensing: An Obstacle to Affordable, Quality Health Care
  
  

September 24 , 2008

September Newsletter Posted

• Arizonans to Vote on Health-Freedom Ballot Initiative
• More Americans Seeking Health Information, Especially on the Internet
• Summary of Major Presidential Candidates’ Health-Care Reform Proposals
  
  

August 29 , 2008

August Newsletter Posted

• Explosive Growth in Medical Tourism and Retail Clinics: Challenges to Health-Care Status Quo on the Rise, Deloitte Center Finds
• Groups Pushing International Health-Care Regulations
• Woman Is Sterilized Without Her Consent
  

July 24, 2008

July Newsletter Posted

• Physicians Group Pushes Single-Payer Bill in Congress
• What Every American Should Know About Single-Payer H.R. 676
• Excerpts from H.R. 676
  
  

July 2, 2008

June Newsletter Posted

• Standing Strong for Health-Privacy Rights
• Minn. Governor Protects Genetic-Privacy Rights; Vetoes “DNA Warehouse” Bill
• Americans Believe Wounded Iraq War Veterans Are Not Receiving High Quality Medical Care When They Return to the U.S.
  
  

May 15 , 2008

May Newsletter Posted

• Anti-Discrimination Bill Inadvertently Legalizes Sharing of Genetic Information Without Patient Consent
• Large Employers Push Health IT Legislation
  
• Will Individuals Store Their Medical Information in a National Health Information Network?

 

April 9, 2008

April Newsletter Posted

• CCHC Urges President Bush to Veto Newborn Genetic Screening Bill (S. 1858); Says Bill Lacks Privacy, Property Rights and Informed Consent Safeguards
• Privacy-Conscious Congressman’s Health Data on Stolen Laptop
  
• Medicare Faces Inadequate Financing; Spending Grew 44 Percent in Past 3 Years
• National Health-Care Systems Around the World

 

March 28, 2008

March Newsletter Posted

• Medicare Roundup: "The way we finance Medicare now is equivalent to taking out a credit card for our grandchildren and slapping our own medical bills on it."
• Many Americans Want Major Changes in Health Care, Deloitte Survey Finds
  
• More than 1 out of 10 Consumers Report Having a Health Spending Account
• Who Will Be the Gatekeeper of Personal Health Information?

 

February 28, 2008

February Newsletter Posted

• Americans Split over Socialized Medicine
• What Is Socialized Medicine Anyway?
• Feds Seek to Harmonize State Health-Privacy Laws

 

February 21, 2008

Google Personal Health-Records System Gives Consumers Greater Control over Privacy than HIPAA Rules

 

February 7, 2008

January Newsletter Posted

• Microsoft Seeks Patent for System to Remotely Monitor Office Workers
• Collective Care: Medical Groups, National Accrediting Agency, and Large Employers Promote “Medical Home” Concept
• “Wired for Health Care Quality Act” Threatens Privacy and Control over Personal Information

 

December 12, 2007

December Newsletter Posted

• Americans Favor Private Health-Insurance Options over Mandates
• Americans’ Views on National Health-Care Reform
• Whom Do Americans Trust on SCHIP?

 

November 13 , 2007

November Newsletter Posted

• Poll Shows Americans Endorse “Consent of the Studied”
• Self-Governing People Shouldn’t Have to Await Tribunal Approval before Making Private Health-Care Decisions
• Medicare-for-All Would Lead to $21 Billion Shortfall

 

October 26 , 2007

October Newsletter Posted

• Medical Freedom Initiative Launched in Arizona; Supported by 71 Percent of Voters
• Microsoft Launches Free HealthVault for Storing and Sharing Medical Information Online
• Advice for Hillary; Bravo for Stossel

 

October 5 , 2007

September Newsletter Posted

• Executive Order Paves the Road to “Interoperable” Medical-Records Tracking of 100 Million Americans
• National Health-Policy Q&A
• Tobacco Taxes to Fuel Expansion of Children’s Federal Health Program
  
• Compulsory Universal Health Insurance: Neither a New Idea nor a Good One

August 28, 2007

August Newsletter Posted

• More Facts Needed for Health-Policy Debate
• Does the Single-Payer Medicare Program Deny Payment for Health-Care Services?
• Genetic Research on Babies without Parents’ Consent Opposed
  
• To Mandate, Or Not to Mandate
  
  

July 24, 2007

July Newsletter Posted

• Should Congress or a Federal “Entity” Establish Your Privacy Rights?
• Private Health-Care Options Must Be Defended
• Massachusetts Mandatory Health-Insurance Watch
  
  

June 22, 2007

June Newsletter Posted

• Health-Privacy Breaches Challenged in State Courts, Feds Continue to Receive Complaints
• Medicare Drug Benefit Is the Single-Largest Contributor to $50 Trillion Federal Liability
• What Mitt and Hillary Have in Common
  
  

May 25, 2007

May Newsletter Posted

• Minnesota Health-Insurance Exchange Legislation Creates “Single-Seller” Bureaucracy
• Government Begins to Enforce Conventional Medicine Mandates on Americans
• Forgo Government Care and Seek Private Treatment for Sensitive Issues, Says Concerned Foreign Service Officers
  
  

April 26, 2007

April Newsletter Posted

• Americans’ Top Concerns
• FDA Calls for Public Comments on Its Guidance Document Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products: Submit Comments by [May 29, 2007]
• Should the Veterans Administration Take Over All Health Care?
• Will the Political Obsession with Universal Coverage Lead to Neglect of Needed Reforms?
  
  

April 5, 2007

March Newsletter Posted

• Will Bill Gates Help Pave the Way to True Health-Privacy Rights?
• Universal Coverage Relieves Citizens of Responsibility and Liberty
• Vaccination-Choice Coalition Calls for Protecting Parental Rights

March 7, 2007

February Newsletter Posted

• California Health-Reform Plan: $12 Billion Solution to a Purported $9.5 Billion Problem?
• Nation’s Health Expenditures Hit Nearly $2 Trillion in 2005, Projected to Double to $4 Trillion by 2016
• Restoring “True” Insurance

January 26, 2007

January Newsletter Posted

• HHS Asks for Comments on Plans for Electronic Health Records and Genomic Medicine: Submit Comments by February 5!
• Americans Are Concerned about Privacy of Electronic Records, Survey Finds
• Is Insurers’ Plan to Give Patients Personal Health Records a “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”?