A New Bill Would Include Nutritional Supplements in Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts are especially important for natural health consumers—and now they may become even more useful. Action Alert!
04 Jun
2013
26 Feb
2013
Dietitians Using Medicare Reform to Monopolize Hospital Nutrition Services
It won’t help hospital food, already notoriously bad, to outlaw advice from the most qualified nutritionists. Action Alert!
02 Oct
2012
Gee, Thanks, Mr. Vice President!
Joe Biden has been bragging on the campaign trail in Florida about a free health “exam” for seniors. What kind of “exam” is this?
03 Jul
2012
What the Supreme Court Decision Means for Integrative Medicine
You aren’t likely to read this anywhere else….
03 Apr
2012
Will Millions of Newly Insured Patients Under Healthcare Reform Actually Be Insured?
Most of the recent discussion is about whether all or part of the Healthcare Act will get through the Supreme Court. But let’s assume for a moment that it does.
10 Jan
2012
New Regulations Threaten Insurance for CAM Patients
There are many questions about how the healthcare act will actually work, but complex regs just released seem likely to doom the very programs that help us pay for our integrative medical treatments. New Action Alert!
27 Sep
2011
Chicago’s “Wellness” Program for City Employees— Imagine if This Went National!
If employed by Chicago, you’ll take whatever “preventive” medicine the city demands—or pay far more in insurance premiums!
20 Sep
2011
New Ron Paul Bill Would Restore Some First Amendment Rights for Supplement Producers
It’s the latest in a series of the candidate’s bills supporting health freedom and our access to natural health remedies. A new Action Alert!
09 Aug
2011
The Myth of Catching It in Time
Mass screening has been ‘sold’ to American consumers as the way to catch life threatening diseases in time. Mass screening has been sold as preventive care when in reality it is early detection. And, unlike prevention, mass screening has its benefits and its risks.
21 Jun
2011
Action Alert: New Legislation Would Expand HSA and FSA Coverage of Dietary Supplements
A new bill would expand “eligible medical expenses” in the IRS code to include herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, meal replacement products, and other dietary and nutritional supplements.