Check this out if YOU are interested in the POLITICS of CAM/CAVM!

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Hi All,

 

I do not know if this is genuine, but if it is, it may be a MAJOR

breakthrough for CAM/CAVM in the United States.

 

Would those of you involved in the POLITICS of CAM please check

it out. If it is genuine, please spread the word to all your political

CAM contacts.

 

Phil

 

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Tommy Thompson sides with " Health Freedom " on MAJOR issue

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen January 27th, 2003

 

The conventional medicine stranglehold on health care has been

broken - period. It was done in Health & Human Services Director

Tommy Thompson's office on January 16th, 2003 when Thompson

SIGNED the approvals to use a new billing code system called

ABC Codes in HIPAA transactions.

 

I told you the Bush administration was on the side of " health "

before. Some of you doubted. Here's another example... Let me

explain.

 

Prior to Thompson's action, the world of health practitioners had

been dependent, for billing, on two basic systems. One is called

the " Diagnostic Codes, " and the other is known as the Physicians’

" Current Procedural Terminology or CPT® codes. " The World

Health Organization (WHO) owns the rights to the " Diagnostic

Codes. " The American Medical Association (AMA) owns the rights

to the " " Current Procedural Terminology or CPT® codes. " Each

gets paid money each time the code is used. The codes, both

sets, are used to bill Medicare, health insurance, etc. The WHO

" Diagnostic Codes " are simply that - diagnostic codes. But it was

the CPT® codes that became the ISSUE in health care.

 

Simply, the AMA would NOT issue codes for alternative health

care. Congress told them. Federal Judges told them. Their

membership told them. They didn't listen.

 

What was happening, of course, was that the AMA was controlling,

through its codes, or lack of codes, what actual procedures would

be paid for, and which ones would NOT be paid for. That's over. The

AMA has lost. January 16th, 2003 was their " Waterloo. "

 

Enter, from stage left - ABC Codes - which are designed

specifically for alternative practitioners. Understand this. Thompson

signed off on the first part of the project - a two year sort of pilot

program, where they see how well it works. It's up to YOU to see

that it works well... There is a 60 day sign-up period. The clock is

running. It started January 16th, 2003.

 

Health practitioners - GET INVOLVED IN THIS RIGHT NOW! There

is a website you need to visit to read more about this. Read ALL of

it. I've been on the phone with the ABC Codes project people

yesterday, and today, at length. They'll have their website updated

for the information you need to be PART of this VERY soon. They

have gained the approval of not only Tommy Thompson, but every

agency of " standards " in the United States. They have over 4,200

codes available right now.

 

You've got to go to the website www.alternativelink.com right now.

If you're a practitioner, you don't have ANYTHING better to do in the

next half hour. Go do it. You're welcome...

 

And, yes, you may pass this story along to anyone. Tim Bolen -

Consumer Advocate

 

This " Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter " is about the

battle between " Health and Medicine " on Planet Earth. Tim Bolen

is an op/ed writer with extensive knowledge of the activities of a

subversive organization calling itself the " quackbusters, " and that

organization's attempts to suppress, and discredit, any, and all

health modalities that compete with the allopathic (MD) paradigm

for consumer health dollars.

 

The focus of the newsletter is on the ongoing activities, battles,

politics, and the victories won by members of the " Health Freedom

Movement " against the " quackbusters " It details " who the

quackbusters are, what they are, where they are operating, when

they appear, and how they operate - and how easy it is to beat

them... "

 

For background information on the " Battle between Health and

Medicine " go to: http://www.savedrclark.net/by_whom2.htm. A

copy of THIS newsletter, and older ones, are viewable at the

website http://www.quackpotwatch.org/default.htm

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

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