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Public Comment on Social Determinants of Health in Medicare
Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) is a national, independent, non-profit, health care policy organization with a mission to protect patient and doctor freedom. Protecting freedom including protecting the freedom of the patient and the doctor to work together...
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Volume 26: Issue 3: 3rd Quarter 2023
A Win for Genetic Ownership
Who owns your blood, your cells, your genetic material? Those who have followed the complicated story of Henrietta Lacks since her death in 1951 know that, at its core, the case is about genetic ownership. Ms. Lacks did not provide her consent before her cells...
Storing and Using Newborn DNA—Without Parent Consent
"[M]ost parents are completely stunned when they find out that their child's blood is being held by the State. They have no recollection and they think it's unlawful." Dr. Sharon Kardia, University of Michigan, September 23, 2009. Photo from 2005 MN Department of...
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CCHF Urges Americans to Choose Original MedicareÂ
ST. PAUL, Minn. — As the Medicare Open Enrollment Deadline approaches on December 7th, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) is urging seniors to carefully consider the potential dangers associated with choosing or staying in Medicare Advantage – and to instead...
Biden’s Medicare Rule Diverts Scarce Resources from Patient Care
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom president and co-founder, Twila Brase, provides the following statement on President Biden’s latest 2,709-page Medicare rule: “The changes to physician payments in the recently released Medicare rule will...
Aetna Audit Exposes Harm to Taxpayers and Patients
ST. PAUL, Minn. — CCHF Statement on HHS OIG audit of Aetna, which found millions of dollars in Medicare Advantage overpayments: “As recent HHS OIG reports show, health plans expose taxpayers to fraudulent behavior and patients to deleterious denials of care....
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