Health Freedom Protection Act (HR 4282)Introduced Into US Congress..

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Health Freedom Protection Act (HR 4282)Introduced Into US Congress...

 

Opinion by Health Freedom Advocate Tim Bolen

 

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

 

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) was originally designed to

serve the needs of the American public.

 

Of course, these days, it does no such thing - it is owned, outright,

by " Big Pharma, " the very industry it is supposed to regulate.

 

Not just is there a revolving door of pharma employees with the FDA,

but every committee is in the hands of the drug pushers. In fact, the

FDA is little more than a gun carrying enforcement agency whose only

purpose seems to be to stifle, raid, imprison, shut down, harass,

torture, lie about, and generally discourage competition to drugs,

drugs, and more drugs.

 

They don't even try to hide it.

 

Despite " Big Pharma's, " ,and their minions at the FDA's best efforts,

however, over fifty percent of the total US health health dollar is

spent on alternatives to " organized medicine. " The National Science

Foundation indicates that 88% of all US adults use, and believe in,

some alternative to " organized medicine. " That's no surprise when you

consider that " organized medicine " is the number one, two, and three

killer of Americans (the medical system itself, heart disease, and

cancer) at 2,036,884. Americans are just trying to protect themselves.

 

The number one cause of unnecessary death in the United States, called

Iatrogenic deaths (the system itself) is 783,986.

 

The number two cause of unnecessary death in the United States is

Heart Disease. Statistics show " The 2001 heart disease annual death

rate is 699,697. "

 

The number three cause of unnecessary death in the United States is

Cancer. Statistics show " the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. "

 

The total number of known unnecessary deaths, per year, directly due

to the American Medical System is 2,036,884.

 

But that's about to end - perhaps. The powerful North American Health

Freedom Movement is flexing its muscle - and has gone to the US

Congress and said " Enough is enough. We've got to stop the drug pushers. "

 

Congress has responded. And what Congress did was to activate HR 4282.

 

What's HR 4282 about?

 

It's simple. When enacted, the bill will:

 

(1) amend the drug and health claim provisions of the Food Drug and

Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to permit truthful disease treatment claims for

foods and dietary supplements (presently FDA prohibits all such claims.

 

(2) prohibit FDA from preventing any who sell foods and supplements

from sending consumers government reports (and accurate quotes form

government reports) on nutrient-disease associations.

 

(3) prohibit FDA from preventing any who sell foods and supplements

from sending consumers scientific publications on nutrient-disease

associations;

 

(4) limit FDA disclaimers on health claims to no more than three

concise sentences.

 

(5) require FDA to permit health claims to be made unless FDA proves

there to be no scientific evidence to support the claims and no

disclaimer capable of avoiding misleadingness;

 

(6) compel FDA to approve or disapprove health claim petitions within

100 days or the claims will be automatically allowed.

 

(7) require FDA to consider studies of the treatment effect of

nutrients in evaluation of nutrient-disease prevention claims.

 

(8) prohibit FDA from waiving conflicts of interest in its food

advisory panels considering health claims.

 

 

 

(9) reverse FDAs denial or restriction of the following

nutrient-disease association claims: (a) saw palmetto treating benign

prostatic hyperplasia; (b) omega-3 fatty acids and coronary heart

disease; © omega-3 fatty acids and sudden death heart attacks; (d)

glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate treating osteoarthritis; and (e)

calcium reducing the risk of bone fractures.

 

(10) prevent FDA from disallowing structure function claims that

include terms that refer to signs or symptoms of disease so long as

the disease itself is not mentioned.

 

(11) amend the deceptive advertising provisions of the Federal Trade

Commission Act (FTCA) to make all publications exempt from regulation

by the amendment to the FDCA also exempt from regulation by the FTC.

 

(12) prohibit FTC from regulating as advertising any truthful and

accurate summary of findings from peer-reviewed scientific publication.

 

(13) require FTC to give notice and an opportunity to cure to any

company suspected of engaging in deceptive advertising of a health

benefit.

 

(14) prohibit FTC from commencing a deceptive advertising

investigation of a health benefit promotion unless FTC possesses proof

by a preponderance of the evidence that the ad is false and misleading.

 

(15) require FTC to prove that an ad is false and misleading and that

it actually misleads consumers before FTC may hold an advertiser

guilty of deceptive advertising.

 

 

The bill, the " Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 4282 " , co-sponored by

Congressmen Ron Paul (TX), Peter DeFazio (OR), Dan Burton (IN), Walter

Jones (NC), Rob Bishop (UT), John J. Duncan (TN), Roscoe Bartlett

(MD), Jeff Miller (FL), Butch Otter (ID) and Tom Tancredo (CO).

 

This will be a huge battle with " Big-Pharma. " It will be the first of

many conflicts to dislodge " Big Pharma's " hold on North American

health care -and their obvious intent to destroy the US economy.

 

America needs to be " healthy " not " medicated. "

 

Stay tuned...

 

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

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