Yes, absolutely. This is why my first point is no medical mandates.
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Yes, point #7 calls for a ban on any private entity ādonatingā to a government entity or entering a joint venture with them, such as the CDC Foundation. That is exactly what I had in mind, but the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded NIH programs and collaborated with NIH so itās not just the CDC Foundation.
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I donāt believe government should be in this business. I believe if government got out, if we removed all the programs I mentioned, and implemented these policies, the free market would seriously diminish what today is called conventional medicine and elevate a vast spectrum of what is deemed complementary medicine. I am a qualified homeopath and raised my family exclusively on homeopathy. I understand your point and agree there are so many ways to heal and maintain health, but believe the first step is to remove all the government support for the pharmaceutical-based system we have today and let people decide what works for them. Of course, we also have to ban direct to consumer advertising on TV again as the media are a huge part of the problem. The public simply does not know it is being mislead by the media.
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I do not disagree. As I mentioned, I have been keeping notes for a book for a decade on this subject. I was merely laying out the most pressing issues that must be addressed. Effectively, we live in a post-Constitutional order. I am not saying I like it or that I approve, merely stating the reality. When I was asked to draft this due to many presentations and talks I have given on the subject (see Presentations and Interviews under the Learn tab here HealthFreedomDefense.org), I enumerated what I believe to be the most glaring problems we face related to our health and health freedom.
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Excellent! Every single one of these mandates are necessary and need to be implemented right away! Thank you Leslie!
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Stop all flu vaccine mandates and mask mandates.
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Absolutely! We will get there.
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Repeal the opioid prohibition which unjustly criminalizes PCPs and leaves human beings who have incurable chronic painful diseases or lifelong traumatic physical injuries abandoned. Itās not their fault they have an incurable disease or physical injury. Itās a human right not to suffer. This is cruel and inhumane.
Many abandoned patients, have an unacceptable QoL now- many commit suicide to escape the suffering or others desperate for relief may turn to counterfeit tainted street drugs & die from OD or become fullblown illicit users. The guidelines in 2016 grouped all opioids in 1 bucket including heroin fentanyl, etcā¦ The ICD-9 coding was not specific prior to Oct-Dec 2016 when a more specific ICD-10 code book was released. However, the first 3 quarters of 2016 was really unknown - just like the years prior. Most diversions occured between or enroute from the manufacturer to the designated distributor. Other diversions were Dr Shoppers, and ppl playing both sides of the fence, illicit drugs and / or plus rxās.
The pay per diagnosis code influences some healthcare to upcode and create charting for justification. Please rein in bias on pain meds used for ODs. If 1 person who ODd had 3 different drugs eg, benzo, heroin, fentanyl - instead of 1 death they counted it as 3, based on amount of drugs in the toxicology.
Definitely needs to restore PCP to treat their patients (most have or were seen by the same PCP for many years.) The PCP knows their patients, govt needs to stay out of āpracticing medā & allow the PCPs to use their knowledge & skills without fear of prosecution. The PDMP is an invasion of privacy and used to target legit innocent patients and legit innocent doctors. Govt gives out # of pills rxād over 5 yrs time by one provider. If the Rx is 4x day and PCP sees 30+ pts a day x 5 or 6 days- the amount of pills cited is not extraordinary, in fact theyāre less than the 5 or 6 years amounts the officials cite. Sensationalism has no place in citing numbers, if you break down the math.
Stop this insanity. Listen to legit pain pts and legit PCPS. The govt is deaf and blind, they know- itās been admitted but put it in legislature & stop the suffering and deaths. Iāve researched and dug for 2 years to find the correct information. I have questions still, like why is CDC getting opioid lawsuit money ? What are the States doing with the lawsuit money? I am determined to find more answers and determined for all suffering to have a voice !
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These sound like proposals that RFK jr. would support. He joined Trump under the agreement that these types of issues would addressed to provide Americans with safe food.
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This is excellent and thoughtful work, and I appreciate the time that went into it. Much of this requires legislative changes, which will not be as immediate as some quick win (and large impact) executive actions. Below are some thoughts on each of the topics for your consideration:
1: Ban all Medical Mandates. [I like this idea, and if we share accurate information about communicable diseases as they may arise, and the efficacy of treatments and prophylactic protocols, people for the most part will do the right thing. Having a healthier population to start with could also reduce the pain from any serious pandemic.]
2: Repeal the Bayh-Dole Act. [Agree. The idea that our own scientists benefit financially if a drug gets approved does not serve the public interest, and may go a long way to explain why 1/3 of drugs are pulled or receive serious safety warnings after approval and launch.]
3: Repeal the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) of 1992 ā [Agree. The government should pay its own bills and serve a regulatory function, not collect fees and serve a research and financial partnership function. This structure would be expected to get us exactly the result that weāve gotten. Plenty of drugs, and ever increasing chronic disease, including the diseases the drugs are supposed to treat.]
4: Repeal the Public Readiness and Preparedness Act (PREP Act). [Iām not familiar with the various provisions of this act, but agree that informed consent should not be violated. I could see protecting companies from certain types of liability in emergency use situations, but the absence of liability of the companies would have to be part of the informed consent.]
5: Repeal the Affordable Care Act. [This will be very difficult to do without some sort of backstop or replacement. Otherwise, it will be impossible to get the votes. That said, the ACA is a disaster. Companiesā inability to more meaningfully incentivize better health in the form of lower premiums beyond simple cigarette smoking is nonsensical and, again, encourages the exact kind of behavior that weāve got in our society. Healthy Person A pays the bills for Person B with 5 chronic diseases, as both pay the same insurance premium as required under ACA with limited variations. Increasing tax advantaged funds like a Super HSA (deductible to company, and not taxable to employee if used for healthcare and can be saved year to year and ultimately will become retirement funds if never used) will allow freedom of choice and provide a natural and proper incentive to people to be healthier.]
6: Repeal the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). [Iām less informed on this one. It seems to make some sense, although as long as thereās no obligation to take the vaccine and the liability shield is part of the patient disclosure, Iām not as much bothered by this one, but am willing to learn more!]
7: Prohibit Private Donations to Government Entities. [Yes. To me this is part of cleaning up the conflicts and the revolving door. Govt should have specified regulatory responsibility. No need for it to do the research or share in the economics in any way.]
8: Cooling-off Period for Senior Federal Employees. [Iād probably have somewhat of a cooling off period at the mid-level also, but less than 5 years. This would have to be a bit tailored to ensure that people would be able to work, but limit the revolving door as the employee would not be able to work on projects for presentation to his former agency department.]
9: Prevent Conflicts of Interest. [This is a broad but essential concept that overlaps with several of the others on this list. I would support broad and complete transparency for each individual that is or has worked for government regulatory agencies, in order to ensure that cooling off period violations and other post-employment restrictions and conflicts are visible.]
- Prohibit Government Grants to Nonprofits. [Agree. This seems like a recipe for conflicts if the government ends up partnering with the industry for a ācharitable purposeā the success of which will benefit industry, and as currently allowed, individuals within the agencies in terms of royalties and future lucrative jobs.]
11: Ban Water Fluoridation. [This is another one that we likely got wrong. Water quality will continue to be an issue that needs analysis and investment, but I agree on not making it worse by the human hubris of assuming without sufficient evidence that we know better than evolution (or creation).
12: Ban Release of Genetically Modified Insects. [Again, this is not an area of my expertise. Nevertheless, I would follow the policy that in order for the government to endorse or allow anything that impacts the natural ancestral progression and habitat, there should be compelling and repeatable evidence over an extended time period to prove that thereās a problem that human ingenuity can address better than simply allowing the matter to take its course. As in Marty Makaryās book, Blind Spots. We often make things worse rather than better, and always make them more expensive. ]
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While I appreciate and agree with most of the policy ideas Leslie presented, her post illustrates one of the problems with public policy. She lays out too many areas of interest and concern at one time. Policy makers need to simplify and focus on one and or two issues at a time. How can anyone address the ideas presented when there are so many. Each one needs and deserves to be presented and challenged in a clear, concise and compelling manner. 1000 page bills and/or lengthy policy statements (even if they have great ideas and/or intentions) will never be read, understood or responded to by most Americans. It will continue to be legislation and/or regulation by the policy bureaucrats.
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Awesome 
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Itās a policy position paper, therefore it outlines most of, but not all, the most glaringly anti-democratic, anti-freedom, anti-American policies and legislation extant today.
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Yes! This is so importantā¦!
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These ideas are broad and comprehensive, and seem to be sound, with the exception of one comment contained in #12, Ban Release of Genetically Modified Insects.
These modified mosquitoes will breed with wild mosquitoes of a certain breed to pass along a gene limiting mechanism so that the female offspring donāt reach maturity, which means they donāt live long enough to have eggs to fertilize. No eggs results in no need to bite to obtain blood for the eggs. So it is the non-biting male mosquitoes that are released to breed with wild mosquitoes.
The more concerning consequence of this experiment is that there are are a number of different types of mosquito in a given region, and yet only one species is being tampered with as they are releasing only one type.
Playing god with nature, causing imbalances in ecosystems, has long been the hubris of scientists, and there is much evidence to suggest that this is rarely helpful, from battling insects and weeds with poisons and GMOs, to removing natural predators (wolf) from balanced habitats.
Making a policy against Hubris in science isnāt the answer. However, creating impartial watchdog agencies who elevate the values of society in determining which science experiments meet fundamental principles that have been established in the field via a democratic method, would go far to reduce the risk of hubris causing unintentional harms. Observation
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Several major principles guide my beliefs such as first do no harm and the ethical principle of informed consent. We have no idea what the knock on effects of tampering with these mosquitoes will be in the short or long term, no matter how well-intentioned these programs may be. They may cause harm in the long term, and no one can guarantee that will not be the case. Additionally, I we donāt know what effect these mosquitoes or their offspring, unintended as they may be, may have on human so this amounts to a medical experiment absent informed consent. No human being should have to subject themselve to one of these insects just to venture outside.
LOVE this! Yes it is time for TRUE health liberty! And to see it back in doctors offices as well as hospitals would be amazing!
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Can you imagine the thalidomide crisis we would have faced if weād been under NCVIA in the 1960s? Your input here is well thought out and presented, my compliments to you. These have my support. In the effort to put these through Iād like to see them presented individually and without riders, so that no congressional opposition can be misunderstood.
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100% on individual bills without riders.
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Stop treating Drug Abuse with more Drugs
I serve on the board of a Non-Profit Drug Prevention organization copes.org/
that uses Education not Pharmaceuticals to treat substance abuse.
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