Access To Medical Treatment Act

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Verne,

I noticed this on Rep. DeFazio's website.

You have been so busy focusing on Salem, I figured you

did not see it.

DeSiena

Reps. Burton & DeFazio Introduce Access To Medical

Treatment Act

Legislation Provides Critical Access To Complimentary

& Alternative Medical Treatments

June 08, 2005

Press Release | Contact: Kristie Greco (202) 225-6416

WASHINGTON, DC— Congressmen Dan Burton (R-IN) and

DeFazio (D-OR) introduced their updated Access

to Medical Treatment Act (AMTA), H.R. 2792, today. The

AMTA guarantees patients the freedom to choose

complimentary and alternative medical treatments,

prescribed by their licensed health care

practitioners, including treatments which may not yet

have completed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s

(FDA) lengthy and expensive approval process.

“Every year, thousands of Americans are diagnosed with

a serious chronic or terminal medical condition,”

Congressman Burton stated. “Unfortunately, for many

patients, traditional FDA-approved pharmaceuticals and

treatments are simply ineffective or offer only

limited relief. We are introducing this legislation to

finally open up our health care system to alternative

treatment methods that can enhance conventional

treatment options, generate new approaches and

techniques for treating illnesses, as well as

potentially lower health care costs.”

Congressman DeFazio added, “Americans are

painfully aware of the outrageous cost of health care

and prescription drugs in this country. Complementary

and alternative medicine offers affordable and

effective treatments for a host of chronic illnesses

and other medical conditions. I want to get the

thousand-pound gorilla known as the FDA off of the

backs of people who want access to beneficial

alternative and complementary health treatments

without compromising the public's safety.”

The AMTA ensures patients have access to safe and

effective treatment therapies through a carefully

controlled and monitored system whereby only three

categories of drugs and devices would be allowed: (1)

those that are undergoing FDA approval that have

limited patient access; (2) treatments approved for

use in selected foreign countries, but are not yet

approved by the FDA; and, (3) non-patentable natural

substances with proven pharmacological treatment

value.

Moreover, the AMTA supports patient choice while

maintaining important patient safeguards in the

following ways: (1) requires individuals who

administer alternative and complimentary treatments to

be licensed physicians or practitioners and requires

the treatment to fall in their scope of practice; (2)

requires patients to sign a thorough informed consent

document; (3) establishes reporting requirements for

alternative and complimentary drugs and medical

devices; (4) prohibits any advertising claims by

health care providers, manufacturers, or distributors

about unapproved drugs and devices.

To read H.R. 2792 in its entirety, please go to

www.loc.thomas.gov. For more information regarding

Congressman Burton’s healthcare policies and

investigative initiatives, please visit his website at

www.house.gov/burton.

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Dr. DeSiena, D.C.

Washington Street Chiropractic Center, L.L.C.

771 Washington Street

Eugene, OR 97401

(541) 686-BACK (2225)

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