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Here is a sample of her recommendations, from Spring 2009 [rev:05.02.09]:

What do I recommend today?

I recommend that you take positive actions to protect your self, your family, your health and your access to wholesome foods and dietary supplements.

New Nano Silver Solution site: http://www.healthyagain.biz/naturalsolutions/

1. Click here to send this open letter to President Obama and your Congressmen and Women:

The President:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26671

Congress:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

2. Click here to support the Natural Solutions Foundation, you health freedom champions. Wait a bit and there may be nothing left to defend. Remember, the “Stimulus Plan” makes any medical care which is not approved by the new Super Bureaucracy in Health And Human Services a forbidden treatment or option.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

3. A. Click here to send a strong message to Congress that the so-called “Health Care Reforms” in the Stimulus Bill are unconstitutional and violate your rights. Therefore, they MUST be repealed in favor of legislation which memorializes you right to control your body and your health choices. Anything less is catastrophic and will mean that your options can only be exercised off shore in the near future.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

B. Click here to tell Congress “No!” to forced industrialization of family farms, natural and home food production, under the guise of fake (sic) “Food Safety” bills that merely give more power to Washington bureaucracies:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27134

Are you prepared to surrender your right to natural health to Codex, to Federal and international agencies, and to the Pharmaceutical corporations? If you are, please, please do nothing.

Oh, by they way, your reproductive rights are next. Here is what is happening in the Netherlands. If Holland goes, can the US be far behind?

Bert and I presented at the AZK anti censorship coalition conference in Chur, Switzerland weekend before last. Approximately 2000 filled the City Hall of Chur where leading truth and freedom movement activists and whistleblowers spoke to a rapt crowd. Corruption in the Economic and Pharmaceutical worlds were detailed by insiders. General Bert and I offered a detailed and comprehensive look at Codex and its Genocidal agenda, past and future.

But what happened after that is really exciting. We see a new alignment developing in the EU! What happens in Europe will effect our freedoms here in the US and the rest of the Americas.

You can find out more at my video Report from Europe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMXIfYZ6AE

We’re also discussing the creation of an EU Natural Solutions Foundation, with a leading European Constitutional Attorney and Law Professor — how to create the petition to reopen EU policy on natural supplements, food, herbs, medicine and Codex.

One million signatures needed in EU, 50K signatures needed in Switzerland, and we have allies from all of the continent who will work with us to bring this petition forward. The EU has strong recall provisions which we lack in the US but it would be very helpful to our side to detach the EC from the “rear” of the US in its slavish support of the policies of the Bigs (Big Pharma, Big Agra, Big Chema, Big Finance and Big Govt) which the US brings forward on every Codex issue.

Only on GMOs does the EU differ from the US, and that rift has been meaningful up to now. We want more rifts, bigger rifts, better rifts!

Perhaps we want the EU out of Codex. We shall see what the Constitutional Law Professor has to say when he advises us.And we will, of course, advise you!

Do we want a European presence for the Natural Solutions Foundation, just as we have an African and a Panamanian? Of course we do! And that, too, will be part of the discussion. We are building for Global Health Freedom at the same time that the other side is destroying for global health fascism.

Which side are YOU on? Where is your support? Of course it is with freedom. Now, check at least one of the boxes below to know what you want to do to build the momentum and power of the health freedom movement over the next 7 days:

[ ] 1. I want to become a community organizer. Email dr.laibow@gmail.com (with Organize in the subject line) and Kathy will send you an Organizer’s Handbook to help you get started

[ ] 2. Click here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/ to join the food freedom forum

[ ] 3. Click on each Action Item in our Health Freedom Action eAlerts – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187

[ ] 4. Click here to sign up for the Natural Solutions’ Vital Connection Webinars – Knowledge is Power!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=2002

[ ] 5. Click here: ralph.fucetola@usa.net, to propose your webinar topic so that we can share the wisdom and skill of our community with other health freedom advocates (put “Webinar” in the subject line).

[ ] 6. Click here: gail@marketplaceinfo.com, to let us know about a product you want to introduce our membership to on our Natural Solutions foundation Marketplace, www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

[ ] 7. Click here: dr.laibow@gmail.com, to volunteer your skills and services for health freedom. What do you do best? We need that skill! (“Volunteer” in the subject line).

[ ] 8. Click here: www.Valleyofthemooncoffee.org, to sell our coffee as a Health Freedom Fundraiser through your church, school or club.

[ ] 9. Donate to the strongest, most pro-active global health freedom organization in the world and protect your own health freedom. Click here to make your tax deductible donation. If you’ve given before, thanks. If you haven’t what are you waiting for? The other side isn’t waiting to take your freedoms away.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

[ ] 10. Join our various Social Networks at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=713 Yes we are on Twitter!

Disseminate, Disseminate, Disseminate! In activism, there are only two options: have enough money or have enough people to bring your point of view forward compellingly. Well, we have people. You have more people. And they have yet more people.

Please be aware of what all these people have accomplished already. Like stopping the ’06 anti-CAM FDA guidance; like keeping the DSHEA protective language in the ’07 FDA bill… Never lose heart!

It is up to us to make sure that the forces which are rapidly trying to destroy our food, our fertility and our freedoms do not succeed. We are, after all, free men and women who own our own bodies and we must vigorously protect that ownership.

So the time has come. Paul Revere is swinging his lantern. You are on the winning side, but you must act, and act and act. Now.

I am proud to be associative with the Natural Solutions Foundation and I know you are, too. Let’s take that pride and manifest it as power: the Power to Speak Truth and Manifest Freedom – Health Freedom

Please share this health freedom information with your friends and contacts and ask them to help protect food and freedom, too. Let them know that they can get their very free subscription to the Health Freedom Action eAlerts at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=187.

Thanks!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

PS – don’t forget to buy your nano-silver supplements at:

http://www.healthyagain.biz/naturalsolutions/

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Foundation President, Maj Gen Bert Stubblebine (USA, ret) and Medical Director Rima E. Laibow MD are on a fact-finding, private diplomacy mission to Europe. Here Dr. Laibow reports on their activities.

The report includes their presentation to a 2,000 person anti-censorship gathering in Switzerland and work with videographers and health freedom advocates in Germany. Dr. Laibow discusses the new allignment developing in the EU and how what happens in Europe will effect our freedoms here in the US and the rest of the Americas.

European supporters of Natural Solutions are invited to join the new Yahoo!Group, NSF-EU at:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSF-EU/

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Our thanks to Greg Scandlen for his analysis of the impact of the “stimulus” bill on Health Freedom IT,

“The health care system sorely needs better management tools and better application of technology. There is currently a vast amount of entrepreneurial energy, innovation, and money being invested in developing, refining, and marketing the tools the system needs to come into the twenty-first century…The danger is that massive federal intrusion will bring all that innovation to a screeching halt. Systems work best when they are developed from the ground up, not imposed from on high.”

Full article below.
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Guest Blog Entry from Consumers for Health Care Choices
Research & Commentary: Health Information Technology
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By Greg Scandlen (February 23, 2009)

As part of the federal government’s economic stimulus package, Congress has authorized spending about $20 billion on health information technology (Health IT) and another $1 billion on comparative effectiveness research. These provisions achieved wide bipartisan support in Congress and in the health care industry, based on the hope that the investment will help improve efficiency, cut costs, and result in better care. The reality is likely to be far different.

Proponents of this spending rely heavily on a short RAND Corporation analysis from 2005 that predicted $77 billion in annual savings and improved outcomes. RAND estimated “implementation would cost around $8 billion per year, assuming adoption by 90 percent of hospitals and doctors offices over 15 years.” It said, “The benefits can include dramatic efficiency savings, greatly increased safety, and health benefits.”

Unfortunately, RAND assumed an error-free system that is quickly and enthusiastically adopted by virtually the entire health care system. That might happen, but it is an absolute best-case scenario. Even then, instead of “dramatic savings,” the $77 billion hoped-for savings amounted to a mere 4.5 percent of total costs, placed at $1.7 trillion by RAND.

Far more likely is that every penny of the $20 billion will be wasted on systems that don’t work and can never be implemented. That was the outcome of federal attempts to upgrade technology at the IRS, the FBI, and the air traffic control system. And these are all relatively simple enterprises involving single federal agencies. Health IT is vastly more complex and must include hundreds of thousands of private organizations that have invested in legacy systems that work reasonably well and are as varied as there are providers.

This also has been the experience of the United Kingdom, which has been trying to adopt a similar information technology upgrade for its National Health Service (NHS) since 2002. This plan was far less ambitious than the U.S. version, involving merely 30,000 physicians and 300 hospitals, all of whom are already employed by the NHS. Originally estimated to cost 2.3 billion pounds, it is already at 12.7 billion pounds-$18.4 billion, or about as much as provided in the stimulus package for the entire United States. A recent report to Parliament admitted the program is four to five years late and may never be implemented as envisioned. The project has lost two of the four vendors who were working on it, and some of the elements that have been installed are not meeting expectations.

This is not to say health IT is a bad idea or that hopes for it are unwarranted. Quite the opposite. The health care system sorely needs better management tools and better application of technology. There is currently a vast amount of entrepreneurial energy, innovation, and money being invested in developing, refining, and marketing the tools the system needs to come into the twenty-first century.

The danger is that massive federal intrusion will bring all that innovation to a screeching halt. Systems work best when they are developed from the ground up, not imposed from on high. In ground-up development, flaws can be detected and eliminated without much systemwide damage. Poor vendors can be removed without disruption to the whole system.

We do not yet know what the optimal system will be. Imposing federal standards on health IT in 2009 means the entire system will be locked in to those standards for very long time to come and innovation will not be rewarded.

The RAND study said “market forces” are an obstacle to health IT. Just the opposite is true. The market is the best way to test and refine new ideas. The process of repeated testing and refinement may seem slow to people who want instant solutions and shortcuts, but the failure to engage in that process often results in massive mistakes and wasted billions.

The following articles address some of these concerns and examine health IT from a free-market perspective.

(Thanks to Scot Silverstein, MD of Drexel University and Linda Gorman of the Independence Institute for helping develop this listing).

Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?
RAND Corporation, 2005
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9136/
This is a short issue brief from RAND that is the basis for most of the estimates of systemwide cost savings. It does not look at the possible difficulties at all and claims the cost savings could reach $77 billion a year in 15 years

The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress since 2006
The Public Accounts Committee of the UK
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubacc/153/15304.htm
“By the end of 2008 the Lorenzo care records software had still not gone live throughout a single Acute Trust. Given the continuing delays and history of missed deadlines, there must be grounds for serious concern as to whether Lorenzo can be deployed in a reasonable timescale and in a form that brings demonstrable benefits to users and patients. Even so, pushing ahead with the implementation of Lorenzo before Trusts or the system are ready would only serve to damage the Programme.”

Health IT: Intelligent Evolution
Health Affairs Blog by Esther Dyson
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/health-it-intelligent-evolution/?source=promo
Esther Dyson, the well-known technology investment guru, argues health IT can help bring about improved health care, “But government standards efforts (or magical thinking) won’t make it happen. Rather, I think it will pretty much happen by itself-or rather by the decentralized efforts of millions of people and the slightly more centralized or at least clustered efforts of hundreds of companies, mostly start-ups but eventually some larger ones, too.”

Health Information Technology: A Few Years of Magical Thinking?
Carol Diamond and Clay Shirky
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.27.5.w383
Argues that the current push by the federal government to perfect standards on health technology has it exactly backwards. “If you computerize an inefficient system, you will simply make it inefficient, faster.” The authors write, “[T]echnology and standards alone will not lead to health IT adoption, let alone transform health care. There are serious structural barriers to the use of IT that have nothing to do with technology.”

Sociotechnologic Issues in Clinical Computing: Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties
Blog by Scot M. Silverstein, M.D., Drexel University,
College of Information Science & Technology
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/failurecases/?loc=home
Dr. Silverstein has developed a Web site that summarizes scores of case studies documenting how various forms of health IT have wasted resources or endangered patient care. He concludes, “The appropriate levels of critical thinking and skepticism essential in a demanding area such as introduction of computer automation in medicine appear largely absent.”

Safely Implementing Health Information and Converging Technologies
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals
http://www.jointcommission.org/SentinelEvents/SentinelEventAlert/sea_42.htm
“Any form of technology may adversely affect the quality and safety of care if it is designed or implemented improperly or is misinterpreted. Not only must the technology or device be designed to be safe, it must also be operated safely within a safe workflow process.”

Current Approaches to U.S. Health Care Information Technology Are Insufficient
National Academies of Science
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12572
“Many care providers told the committee that data entered into their IT systems was used mainly to comply with regulations or to defend against lawsuits, rather than to improve care. As a result, valuable time and energy is spent managing data as opposed to understanding the patient.”

Australian Health Information Technology
Blog by Dr David More MB, PhD, FACHI
http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2007/10/hospital-computing-why-is-it-so-hard.html
“This blog provides a commentary on the progress (or not) of e-health in Australia from the perspective of someone who has worked in the field for over 20 years and has become a bit jaded with the lack of apparent progress in a very important field.”

Electronic Health Record Use and the Quality of Ambulatory Care in the United States
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/13/1400
A large study of 1.8 billion ambulatory visits in 2003 and 2004 found no difference in 14 of 17 quality indicators between using electronic health records (EHRs) and not using them. The use of EHRs resulted in significantly better quality in two indicators and significantly worse quality in one.

Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication Errors
Ross Koppel, Ph.D., et al.,
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/293/10/1197
This study found that using Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Systems increased 22 types of medication errors.

Bad Health Informatics Can Kill
European Federation of Medical Informatics
http://iig.umit.at/efmi/badinformatics.htm
Summary of 33 separate studies from 1985 to 2009 showing that health IT was the cause of or a significant contributor to medical errors.

Preventing Chronic Disease: An Important Investment, But Don’t Count On Cost Savings
Louise B. Russell, Health Affairs, 2009
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/42
“Over the four decades since cost-effectiveness analysis was first applied to health and medicine, hundreds of studies have shown that prevention usually adds to medical costs instead of reducing them. … Careful choices about frequency, groups to target, and component costs can increase the likelihood that interventions will be highly cost-effective or even cost-saving.”

Disease Management for Chronically Ill Beneficiaries in Traditional Medicare
David M. Bott, Mary C. Kapp, Lorraine B. Johnson, and Linda M. Magno, Health Affairs, 2009
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/86
“Since 1999, the CMS has conducted seven DM [disease management] demonstrations involving some 300,000 beneficiaries in thirty-five programs. … Final evaluations on twenty programs found [only] three with evidence of quality improvement at or near budget-neutrality, net of fees. Interim monitoring covering at least twenty-one months on the remaining fifteen programs suggests that [only] four are close to covering their fees.”

For further information on the subject, visit the Health Care issue suite on The Heartland Institute’s Web site at www.heartland.org.

Nothing in this message is intended to influence the passage of legislation, and it does not necessarily represent the views of The Heartland Institute. If you have any questions about this issue or the Heartland Web site, you may contact Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, at greg@chcchoices.org.

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