Colorado House Bill 09-1175, known as the Naturopathic Practice Act,
would eliminate traditional naturopathic practitioners in Colorado.
The
definition of "traditional naturopathic practitioners" would include by
definition
all but a very select few natural health care providers, herbalists, nutritional consultants, and
distributors of natural health products, as well as anyone who
currently provides any form of natural health or nutritional counseling
or advise, and could also be interpreted to include proprietors of
health food stores. (It could
possibly even be used to prevent parents from providing health instruction to their own children, or from determining whether or not to give their children vitamin supplements.) It would also provide a monopoly on the practice of
all forms of natural health care to the graduates of only a select few
schools. HB1175 endangers consumer choices and health freedoms, and
endangers natural health care practitioners' right to practice their
trades by creating an exclusive monopoly on who provides natural,
complementary, and alternative therapies, information, and services.
HB1175
would make it a crime for thousands of unlicensed persons to practice
their trades and would destroy THOUSANDS of Colorado entrepreneurial
natural health based businesses, unless the practitioners are
registered naturopathic doctors mandated to graduate from a particular group of schools. Colorado would lose millions in personal income and State Revenue loss in sales tax and Income tax.
As
Americans who are concerned about our dwindling health freedoms, we
should all actively oppose any and all mandates that require all people
to obtain permission from the state to do a healing act. Minnesota,
California, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Idaho all have
health freedom laws that exempt unlicensed practitioners from criminal
statutes as long as they avoid specific prohibited conduct and give out
proper disclosures. THESE LAWS MAKE GOOD, COMMON SENSE!!
COLORADO HEALTH SEEKERS DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR OPTIONS PROTECTED!!!
If
you value your freedom to manage your own health care using
practitioners of your own choosing, you need to take an active stance
against any law that would restrict the health freedom of any American
living in any state! If you are not particularly concerned about the
protection of health care choices, you should still be concerned about
any legislation that would force thousands of entrepreneurs out of
business and provide monopolies to any "elite" groups of individuals.
That's not what our failing economy needs right now!
AS GOES COLORADO, SO GO OTHER STATES SOON.
