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June 07, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Somewhere in the progression of government intrusion into the exam room, bureaucratic red tape in medicine, impersonal and expensive care, and the blatant stripping away of patient privacy, an important fact was forgotten.
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May 31, 2016
Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom Says Both Patients
and Doctors Deserve a Better System for Health Care
ST. PAUL, Minn.—The news is not good for Obamacare. Last week alone, headlines are extremely negative for the doomed and struggling government health care system.
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May 23, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Eight states have gotten the message that REAL ID is a harmful government intrusion on their states’ residents—and have taken action to enact laws prohibiting REAL ID to protect their people.
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May 19, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Despite the fact that the Minnesota House and Senate have passed bills that will force REAL ID on Minnesotans, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, www.cchfreedom.org), which staunchly opposes the national federal identification system, says the next few days will be crucial in protecting residents from this dangerous law.
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May 09, 2016
Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom Says the Push for a National ID Not Only Strips States of Their Constitutional Rights, But Also Poses Major Privacy Issues for Americans
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April 27, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—UnitedHealth Group, Inc., is leaving more and more state Obamacare exchanges, announcing recently that it will also pull out of the health care marketplaces in Kentucky and Iowa, bringing to 26 the number of states the health insurer is quitting next year, according to Bloomberg.com.
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April 22, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Patient privacy for some of Indiana’s youngest citizens—and the fight for the protection of baby DNA nationwide—took a blow this week, as the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled against baby “A.B. Doe,” her parents and other families they were representing.
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April 05, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Politico is reporting today that a little-talked about section of the House-passed 21st Century Cures Act (H.R.6) appears dead in the Senate. The House language would allow “HIPAA-protected information to be shared with researchers.”
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April 05, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—A five-year Medicare experiment that began on April 1 forces 800 hospital systems in 67 metro areas to receive “bundled payments” for the care of patients who are undergoing hip and knee joint replacements. And these payments must cover all charges associated with these procedures, regardless of how high they might be.
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March 28, 2016
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Over 18 months, HealthCare.gov, the government online portal used by millions to purchase health insurance under Obamacare, logged 316 cybersecurity incidents from October 2013 to March 2015, according to a new report released last week.