- I would like to thank everyone who has written, emailed
and phoned the Arkansas Attorney General on our behalf. Many of the letters
are posted on my web site and are worth a read: www.herbalhealer.com
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- The outcry has been tremendous and I think they are getting
the message that trying to close us down is not a good idea. We all have
to fight for our rights to choose in the healthcare industry and break
down the corrupt medical monopoly on our health choices. I hate to fight,
but they have declared war...Let's win this one for America! > Good
News
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- I received the following letter from the Arkansas Health
Freedom Coalition. This is brand new grassroots organization that has just
started because of this lawsuit! Here is their new web site: http://www.anugraha.org/fisherfolks/AHFC.htm
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- Dear Doctor McCain,
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- Thank you for putting a link to the Arkansas Health Freedom
Coalition on the HHA web page. I am the Secretary Treasurer of AHFC. I
don't know if you have made the link to who actually filed the complaint
that brought about the lawsuit against you and the other Arkansas Naturopaths
being sued. I have put two and two together and figured it out.
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- I wrote, rather than emailed AG Pryor. Elected Officers
get so many thousands of emails, that, other than to scan what it is about
and to see if it is pro or con, after the first few on a subject, they
don't get read, but just an eyeball count is made of how many and then
they hit delete. They do read and answer written, signed letters.
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- I received a two page form letter back from Pryor. The
following is excerpted from the cover letter I emailed with the flyer for
the November 3 AHFC meeting: In the two page form letter sent to me by
Pryor in response to my letter asking him to drop this lawsuit, he states,
"State law requires that only those licensed to do so may hold themselves
out to the public as being certified to diagnose, treat, an/or prevent
various human diseases. Thus if a legitimate, credentialed practitioner
of alternative medicine wishes to practice within this State, he or she
must do so within these confines."
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- What he is saying is that he interprets the intent of
the Arkansas codes to be that only Arkansas State licensed physicians,
and possibly chiropractors, may practice alternative health care in Arkansas.
Period!
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- His letter also states, "As the attachments to the
complaint reveal, legitimate practitioners of alternative medicine fully
support this action."
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- In other words, it was not harmed or dissatisfied clients,
but physicians licensed by the Arkansas State Medical Board who filed the
complaint that led to the lawsuit. Pryor received $15,000 in 2002 PAC donations
from the American Medical Association for his campaign fund. Hutchinson
received $2,000. You can check that out at
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- <http://www.conservativealerts.com/election.htm>
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- Is it not amazing that Pryor would have us believe there
is no connection between the donation and the contribution? Is it not amazing
when the people of Arkansas, other than physicians, did not make the complaint
that he states, "the lawsuit was filed to abate the public nuisance
that has been created as a result of the defendants, acts, which are detrimental
to the health, safety, security, and welfare of the people of Arkansas?"
They actually are behaving as if the people of Arkansas are chattels of
the State without the capability to think and decide for themselves what
is best for themselves!
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- And so, Marijah, the attack has begun, and you can bet
it will not be just in Arkansas, but nationwide. There is so much more
money being spent on health care provided by alternative practitioners
than on allopathic medicine, that they will do every thing in their power
to stomp the alternative practitioner out.
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- I have heard, but have not been able to confirm, that
a bill, drafted by physicians and chiropractors, will be introduced this
upcoming General Assembly that will make it illegal for anyone but themselves
to practice acupuncture but themselves. Acupuncturists are licensed in
the state of Arkansas, so if the physicians and chiropractors have their
way, that board will have to be closed. That gets awfully close to other
alternative health care practitioners who are licensed by the State, including
me, as I am a massage therapist.
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- If we allow this to pass without approaching the legislature
for protection, it is just a matter of time until all unlicensed, as well
as licensed, complementary and alternative health care practitioners are
sued and all brought under the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Medical Board.
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- The traditional medical powers that be are not happy
with the huge percentage of money spent on health care that is going into
the hands of CAM practitioners rather than theirs. To protect our freedom
to choose the modality of healthcare that suits each individual, and the
practitioner of that modality, we must address the Arkansas Legislature
concerning this issue.
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- I do hope the people who use alternative practitioners
in Arkansas, and the practitioners themselves, lend themselves with full
and active support to the effort that the Arkansas Health Freedom Coalition
is extending. I have been politically active in Arkansas in the past and
found the people apathetic and not interested in working to keep their
necks from under the yoke. I hope this issue stimulates them to the few
months effort it will take to get a health freedom bill passed after the
first of the year.
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- T.B. shared the news that you were sending a generous
donation in support of the effort. I appreciate that tremendously and am
very grateful. Thank you.
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- Blessings of love in health,
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- M.C.
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