CCHC Legislative Archives

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2010

CCHC Testimony on Proposed MN Trauma Surveillance System

After CCHC president's speech, CCHC Board members deliver four stacks of petitions directly to Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty at The Patriot radio station's "Undoing ObamaCare" event (AM 1280).

CCHC Letter to Governor Pawlenty on Expanding Medicaid through ObamaCare - 5/14/2010

PETITION TO GOVERNOR - Opposing Repeal of the Minnesota Genetic Privacy Law

CCHC Testimony on Proposed MN Trauma Surveillance System

Twila Brase, CCHC President, testifies against Health Disparities bill in Minnesota House, March 17, 2010
VIDEO link (52:38 - 56:44)
 

2009

• YouTube: CCHC President testifies against Minnesota single-payer legislation.
• Government-Issued Prescription Tracking Pads Proposed in Minnesota

      2009 SESSION REPORTS & PHOTOS

• • MN House Railroad Baby DNA Bill to Passage (3/17/09)
  • A Win for Baby DNA & Families (3/16/09)
  • Packed press conference to protect medical record privacy and patient control (3/19/09)

• CCHC's public comments on MN Health Department's plan to collect and analyze private medical records ("encounter data") of all Minnesotans
• CCHC Genetic Information Minority Report - Sent to MN Dept. of Administration, 12/13/08
  
  • MN Department of Health Comments on Final Report - Asks for Access to Everyone's DNA (see page four), dated 12/15/08
• Why Patient Consent Should be Required for the Governor's Genetic Research Proposal

2007

• 05/11/07: CCHC Sends Letter to Govenor Pawlenty
• 05/09/07: CCHC, Citizens, and Legislators Ask Governor & Legislative Leadership to Protect Individual Healthcare Rights. CCHC asks that five "NOT" provisions not be found in next HHS bill.
• 04/19/07: CCHC Asks Governor Pawlenty to Withdraw the Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Legislation
  

  The Exchange - Why Minnesotans Should be Concerned

• 03/16/07: MN Health Committee Tables Online Medical Records Bill after CCHC Testifies
  

  CCHC Testimony on Online Medical Records and Need for Patient Consent

• 02/08/07: CCHC Testimony on MN House "Children's Health Security Act"
• Minnesota's Health Care Provider Tax - $1.6 billion and rising


• Televised Testimony
• 03/30/07: - CCHC testifies on Health Plans Interfering in Medical Decisions using "Consultation"
  Requirement for CT Scans and MRIs (HHS Finance)- click on part 2, beginning at 1:32:28
• 03/30/07: - CCHC Testifies on Opt-out Requirement for Organ Donation. Calls it a Move toward Conscription
  of Body Parts (HHS Finance) - click on part 3, beginning at 22:45
• 03/05/07: - CCHC Testifies on Government Data Collection on Unsuspecting New Moms (SF 434) - go to
  1:11:49
• 03/06/07 - CCHC Testifies on Taxpayer Cost of Government Dependency & Online Medical Records Mandate
  (SF 2) - go to 1:29:01
• SENATE VIDEO ARCHIVES - for all viewing options

2006

• 07/31/06: CCHC Says: "The Public should protest Govenor Pawlenty's QCare initiative"
• 05/17/06: CCHC Hails Defeat of MN Senate's Prescription Electronic Reporting System
• 05/11/06: Minnesota House Says Yes to Government Medical Decision-Making and Tracking Bureaucracy
• 03/09/06: Minnesota Governor Needs Better Health Care Agenda
• 02/15/06: MN ADVERSE EVENTS REPORT 2006: Excellence of Care Comes Through
• 01/26/06: Pro-Privacy View Excluded from Today's e-Health Privacy Discussion at MN Health Department
• 01/17/06: CCHC ASKS: "Where's the Beef in Legislative Hearings on Health Care Solutions?"

2005

• 07/13/05: MN Legislators Put Bureaucrats at Bedside
• 06/09/05: MN Senate Proposal to Governor Needs "Truth in Advertising"
• 05/12/05: CCHC NEWS CONFERENCE: Minnesota Citizens Say "No Bureaucrats at the Bedside"
• 04/22/05: MN House Dismisses Consideration of Ethics in Genetic Research
• 04/11/05: House Bill will Eviscerate Medical Privacy of Minnesotans
• 02/14/05: Governor and Mayo Clinic Decline Open Discussion of Genetic Research Plan
• 02/10/05: Citizens' Council on Health Care Raises Medical and Genetic Privacy Concerns at Hearings Today
  and Monday
• 01/18/05: Will Patient Consent be Required for Minnesota's Genomic Research Initiative?

2004

• "Cookbook Medicine": Legislators remove decisions from the hands of patients/doctors.

Earlier Testimony

3/20/03: CCHC Testimony on MN Plan to Mandate Genetic Testing of Newborns

1/22/03: CCHC Testimony, Minnesota's Proposed Patient Surveillance System

2/20/01: Hearing to discontinue MN Department of Health access to patient data

3/13/01: Proposed Transfer of Vaccine Mandating Authority to MN Health Dept.

02/20/01: CCHC testifies in support of patient privacy before MN House Committee

03/21/00: Minnesota House Tax Committee - MinnesotaCare provider tax

03/09/99: Patient protection bills in Minnesota

11/06/98: Healthy People 2010 (Chicago, IL)

07/16/98: Immunization Registries (Atlanta, Georgia)

07/21/98: Unique Patient Identifiers (Chicago, IL)