Call to Action re: Alternative Healthcare

The "Access to Medical Treatment Act (S.578/H.R. 746)" is on the floor of congress. It is the most important piece of legislation affecting your right to seek "alternative healthcare" since the 1920s, when the Rockefeller funded Flexner Report all but killed non-pharmaceutical based treatments.

The following is some information passed along by Dannion Brinkley of "Compassion in Action" and Dr. Len Horowitz, the author of "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola." Key congress people to contact and sample letters are included for your convenience:

• Title: Access to Medical Treatment Act (S.578/H.R. 746)
• Issue: Ensuring access on a national level to alternative physicians and therapies.
• Summary: The "Access to Medical Treatment Act (AMTA) allows individuals to be treated by a health care practitioner with any medical treatment (including a medical treatment not approved, certified or licensed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) that the individual desires if:
  

  1. the practitioner has personally examined the individual and agrees to treat the individual,
  2. administration of treatment does not violate licensing laws,
  3. the treatment, when used as directed, presents no danger to the individual,
  4. the individual has been informed in writing that the treatment has not approved by the federal government,
  5. the individual has been warned in writing that the treatment has not been declared safe and effective by the federal government, and the individual is proceeding at his or her own risk,
  6. the individual has been informed in writing of the contents, methods, benefits, side effects, past results, and any other information necessary to meet the requirement for informed consent.