Press Releases
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February 15, 2019
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) is urging Minnesota residents to help stop a plan to repeal the state’s strong patient consent requirements—patient rights to control who accesses medical data and the patient’s right to stop outsiders from interfering in the exam room.
Public Comments
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February 12, 2019
Dear Secretary Azar,
CCHF has been engaged in a two-decade campaign to inform Americans that despite what they’ve long been told by the news media, government agencies, health plans, legislators, Congress, hospitals, and doctor’s offices: HIPAA is not a privacy rule; HIPAA gives outsiders legal license to share, use, analyze, link, and sell patient data . . .
CLICK HERE TO SEND PUBLIC COMMENTS BEFORE 11:59 PM TUES., FEB. 12.
Press Releases
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February 07, 2019
ST. PAUL, Minn.—One of the resolute aims of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) has been to educate Americans that the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “Privacy Rule” really isn’t about privacy at all.
Press Releases
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February 06, 2019
ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Office for Human Research Protections at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today used a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to issue a notice on federally funded research using newborn dried blood spots taken by states for genetic testing at birth.
Multimedia
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January 31, 2019
CCHF's State Legislative and Policy Director, Matt Flanders, shared a MN legislative update with Sue Jeffers on Twin Cities News Talk, AM 1130. Sue and Matt discussed the DFL's MinnesotaCare "Buy-In" option and their plan to not let the MnCare provider tax go away, which taxes the sick and is scheduled to be repealed in January 2020. Follow this link to listen to the interview.
Action Alerts
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January 18, 2019
On November 7, 2018,
CCHF sent a letter to President Trump, co-signed by 37 other organizations. We petitioned President Trump to
allow senior citizens to voluntarily opt-out of Medicare without losing their Social Security benefits. Then on December 13, we delivered our first batch of citizen petitions to the White House. That was a start, but it was only a start. **
Now we need you! **
CCHF Urges MN Residents to Help Stop Bill to Repeal Patient Consent Requirements
