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Keebler
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This article is rather daunting looking at it from where we all sit. The IDSA on steroids, so to speak:

http://www.anh-usa.org/is-your-state-being-targeted-by-a-medical-monopoly/

Is Your State Being Targeted by a Medical Monopoly?

By anh-usa on February 9, 2016 [From the Alliance for Natural Health]

Excerpts:

It may be—if a secretive, private, and powerful organization called the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) gets its way. . . .

. . . The FSMB—a private trade association that sets standards which are often followed by state medical boards—has historically been no friend to integrative medicine. Despite having no public funding, transparency, or accountability, FSMB wields a tremendous amount of power over the practice of medicine in all fifty states. . . .

[Full article at link above, very important to read]

[at the end of the article, a list of states where legislation is pending -- but keep scrolling below that to "States where the compact is enacted - many more states listed.

Even if a state is not on the list, there could be action going on behind closed doors - so much of this is done in secret.]
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Tincup
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Admitting I have another doozy of a headache, but I am trying to follow this story and the complex bills attached.

Something doesn't look right, or feel right. If, for example, you read the Maryland bill- don't bother, way too complicated and long- it COULD be a good bill? (I skimmed thru- so not an official position of mine).

Anyhow, my point is to be sure this isn't one of those things that try to alter or give a different view of what is really going on. ??

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Tincup
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Example- the Maryland Senate bill the article referenced.

http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/bills/sb/sb0446F.pdf

It would take someone much smarter than me to make heads or tails of this bill.

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Keebler
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Bills are often written with some tricky phrases or vague manner - way so the public does not stand a chance. Medical monopoly is not a game - the winners often rigs such bills in way that are not apparent at first glance.

In just about any legislative bill, there can be some good, some really practical help but then there is the catch.
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