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Share Your Testimony

As our bill moves through the legislative process, the next step is to ensure strong support at the bill’s hearing.  We’ve secured sponsor and co-sponsors for our bill, filed it, and are currently educating senators and representatives about it.  Supporters for the legislation have called and written to voice their support.  Now it is time to publicly speak up for health freedom.

Over the coming weeks, the Joint Committee on Public Health is likely to call a public hearing on the bill.  At that public meeting, they will hear arguments for and against the bill.  In preparation for the hearing, we are looking to galvanize support for the bill through powerful personal testimonials.  These personal stories can be delivered orally or in writing.  Oral testimony is limited to 2 minutes in length (about 300 words).  Written documents can be longer. 

A wide variety of stories is needed:

  • Testimonials by clients
  • Successes seen as a practitioner
  • Healing through different modalities – Reiki, Healing Touch, Polarity, Qigong, Alexander Technique, Yoga, Guided Meditation, Homeopathy, Herbs, and more
  • Reduction in PTSD
  • Management of pain
  • Elimination of prescription drugs
  • Recovery from addiction
  • Convenience of having tens of thousands of practitioners to choose from already safely practicing in the state
  • Testimony about preserving cultural traditions in healing through alternative medicine including diverse traditions and age-old wisdom

Include with each testimony: 

   Name

   Professional affiliation, if applicable

   Street Address, Town, State and Zip

   Telephone Number and Email Address

   Your request for the support of S665/H3660

Please contact Carol Bedrosian carol@spiritofchange.org to share your story and learn more. 

We Need Your Ongoing Support!

State House

Massachusetts has formally introduced Senate Bill 665/House Bill 3660, a bill to protect access to complementary and alternative health care practitioners in Massachusetts. This is due to the direct efforts of the HFAMA Committee for Consumer Protection and Access to Complementary and Alternative Health Care.

What you can do: Start building a relationship with your Senate and House Representatives by sending a personal message of support for Senate Bill 665/House Bill 3660 to your legislators.

Follow up with a call to your legislators to leave a message reiterating your support of Senate Bill 665/House Bill 3660 and let them know why you support Senate Bill 665/House Bill 3660 . Find your legislators here.

Please join our hfama mailing list to be updated with our efforts and to be notified of specific times when we need you to contact your legislators.

And we can use your support through donations and volunteer efforts. Thank you!

Commitment!

Months of hard work paid off today at the State House as we secured commitments from both Senators and Representatives to file our bill.  We garnered bipartisan support in the Senate as Sen. Nick Collins (D) agreed to sponsor our bill along with co-sponsors Sen. Michael Rodrigues (D) and Sen. Ryan Fattman (R).  We also mustered support from both sides of the aisle in the House as Rep. John Lawn (D) pledged to file our bill supported by co-sponsors Rep. Don Wong (R) and Rep. Sean Garballey (D).  There is still much to do in the days and weeks ahead to secure additional co-sponsors and to secure passage of our bill.  But the work has begun and the commitment is strong in the Senate, the House and HFAMA.

Team with Rep. Lawn
Team with Sponsor, Representative John Lawn
Rep. Lawn and Clark
The Protect and Access Team
January 10, 2019

Cultivating House Support

As Clark Reddick walked the State House halls January 9 to shore up support for our bill, he found in Qigong Master Rep. Donald Wong someone who readily understands our interest in protecting access for complementary and alternative health care. More exciting news to come as our team hits the halls again tomorrow….

Clark and Rep Wong

Support for our Legislative Efforts

With their inclusion of our message in their January newsletter sent out to 15,000 advertisers and subscribers, Spirit of Change magazine, New England’s largest free holistic magazine, provided a major boost to Health Freedom Action Massachusetts and our efforts to pass legislation to protect all complementary and alternative health care practitioners and guarantee choice in their health care options. 

December 2018 State House Visit

In the run-up to the January 2019 filing date for our bill, the Committee for Protection and Access to Complementary and Alternative Health Care hit the State House to drum up support. Senator Denise Provost was all smiles as she met with her constituent Liesel Bender and Clark Reddick. Carol Bedrosian found strong support in Qigong master Rep. Donald Wong and Senator Ryan Fattman. Meanwhile Kim Valeri, Clark Reddick and Anne Fish couldn’t resist documenting their trip with a photo in the dome of the Massachusetts State House after meeting with representatives, senators, and legislative directors from the offices of Brad Hill, Patricia Jehlen, Jason Lewis, Joan Lovely, Michael Rodrigues, Bruce Tarr, and more. Stay tuned for more updates as we look for our bill sponsor and co-sponsors!

Clark, Senator Provost, and Liesel
Clark, Anne and Kim at the State House
Anne and Kim

SB2621 Defeated for Now

We are relieved that the House Ways and Means Committee did not vote to move SB2621 forward, so it is essentially done for now. We will continue to keep an eye on it if it should be reposted by the sponsor in the next cycle for sure. We want to thank everyone who participated in reaching out directly to their Representatives and to the committee members and for those that physically showed up at the State House. It definitely made an impact and we believe was the reason they did not forward this bill. This just shows us what uniting for a cause can do.

STAY POSTED!

Health Freedom Congress 2018

From June 10-12th, 2018, thirty leading health freedom organizations and fifty additional organizations and participants representing millions of health freedom-conscious Americans came together at the InterContinental Hotel-Riverfront in St. Paul, Minnesota for the 12th U.S. Freedom Congress. They collaborated, celebrated, and networked for future actions to create a more unified front for the health freedom movement. For a summary of this 12th Freedom Congress, please click through on the linked graphic below. We are grateful for the support of the National Health Freedom Coalition as we continue to craft, garner support for, and submit our latest version of the Massachusetts Consumer Access and Right to Practice Complementary and Alternative Health Care Act.

2018 Health Congress