Fwd: Nevada Bill to Make Unlicensed Practitioners into Felons

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Nevada Bill to Make Unlicensed Practitioners into Felons

Date:

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:44:13 +0000

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NEWS

RELEASE

OPPOSE

NEVADA BILL THAT WANTS TO MAKE PRACTICING NATURAL

MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE A FELONY!

OPPOSE SB 412

April 13, 2011

The Bill – Nevada Senate Bill

412 (SB

412) provides for the regulation of the practice of

complementary integrative medicine by creating a

government-sanctioned Board of Complementary and Integrative

Medicines to control all natural health

care, backed by the power of the State to imprison and fine all

offenders. Just imagine when, as with other such medical boards,

the power seekers and control freaks who naturally gravitate to

positions of power in government come to have the say over what

type of natural medicine may be practiced and what type may not.

Will your favorite form of natural medicine survive? Or will it

be branded a heresy and persecuted? It does not take a rocket

scientist to see that this Bill is the road to ruin for all of

those creative natural health practitioners who refuse to

conform. This Board is just a not-so-clever attempt to create and

enforce a monopoly that will end up strangling CAM practice.

SB 412 must be defeated or amended to protect natural health

and its practitioners.

This legislation would put alternative practitioners of

Nevada in serious jeopardy of felony fines and imprisonment for

practicing complementary and integrative medicine that does not

fit within the proposed Board’s licensing requirements and

“accepted” practices. It is intended to define all natural

healers and have them tested and/or approved by conventional

doctors. There will be no grandfathering, no CEU (continuing

education unit) for practicing licensees (under the Drugless

Practitioner status), and it will make practicing any form of

complementary health care a felony if the practitioner is not

licensed.

Alarmingly, to become a “licensed” Complementary Integrative

Physician under this proposed law, an applicant would have had to

attend medical school or have “received an equivalent

education satisfactory to the

Board.” He or she must also be “of good moral

character”; and we all know how other medical boards have used

that requirement to persecute innocent practitioners. In short,

the bill gives the Board great powers to set the bar at whatever

level it wants to screen out unwanted alternative practitioners.

This is the Medical Monopoly at its finest, acting to stifle

their competition and those they disagree with, the natural-health

practitioners, all in the interest of course of “protecting” the

public. This Bill would criminalize victimless conduct. After

all, there should be no penalty at all – even a misdemeanor

penalty – unless someone has been actually harmed and such harm

has been proven in a court of law. This Bill is typical

government overkill and completely unnecessary. Besides, the cost

to the State of Nevada, once they create the Board and then try to

license all these practitioners, will be far greater and more

troublesome than they anticipate. In the end, as attractive as it

might seem now to have a “stamp of approval by the State,” the

Board will become just another costly, rigid, and loathed

government agency, out of touch with reality.

Where This Bill Stands Now

The Bill is in the Senate Committee (Commerce, Labor &

Energy) and is to be heard on Friday, April 15th,

just two days from now.

Please forward this News Release to everyone on

your e-mail list right now.

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organization working to protect individuals' rights to choose to

consume healthy food, take supplements and use alternative

therapies without unnecessary government restrictions. The NHF is

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