Streaming News 03-01-02

Hello everyone. I trust this day finds you happy and spiritually grounded.

I trust this day finds your families and friends are safe and loved.

I trust this day finds you ever vigilant, guarding and seeking ways to help keep all of us safe, healthy, and free.

I trust this day finds you appreciating this great nation and the world we live in as a whole.

Now to what I have been thinking about the last few weeks:

An event at which all of the above truths are capable of moving and expanding at a rate none of us can imagine. The possibility that an event could bring about such change is hard to believe, but I believe that event is at hand.

Now get ready for the scary part!!! The source of this great event is the United States government. Presidential Executive Order 13147, White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy: Section I establishes a commission to study Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy: Section II: Functions. The Commission shall provide a report, through the Secretary [HHS], to the President, on legislative and administrative recommendations for assuring that public policy maximizes the benefits to Americans of complementary and alternative medicine. (See www.WHCCAMP.HHS.gov)

After exploring complementary medicine for over 22 years and having attended more than 30 meetings of various government hearings and having testified more than ten times, I have come to believe the need, now more than ever, to explore and integrate into our society these healing arts.

The final report on the above commission's findings will be finalized on March 7th, 2002 an provided to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for delivery to the President and to the Congress.. The importance of this report is that if it is well written, it will be a blueprint for legislators in how to improve health care in delivery of service and cost effectiveness to our civilian and military populations. Having seen complementary and conventional therapies work together in the VA, through my work with Compassion in Action, I know that it is possible and that now is the time.

Having a firsthand view of the challenges they faced, which so much mirrored life when it comes to making health care decisions, I'd like to thank Steve Groff, James Gordon, Wayne Jonas, Sister Charlotte, and the many other fine commissioners and staff for their hard work in bringing together the Commission's recommendations.

I now ask you to take a good look at the recommendations or to trust me when I say we must support this document and demand that it is included as a part of the new health care paradigm. And because it is a mid term election year, we have the greatest opportunity of our lifetime to protect those whom we love, who love us, and ourselves. Please take time to call or E-mail your congressmen and your senators and ask them read the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy report, support its recommendations - especially where it will improve veterans health care - and that they demand the implementation of the recommendations received as a result of Executive Order 13147. When we look at the health care of ourselves, our friends, and our families, incorporating conventional and complementary perspectives will improve the quality and effectiveness of both.

I do strongly believe that of all the government regulations, commissions, etc., etc., etc., this Commission's report provides and opportunity for us to truly take control of our health and change the way health care is administered, mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Once again let me ask you please to read and support these recommendations and to continue to read W.T.F.T.A.T.W.?

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship... to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic....the Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom its well as religious freedom." --Benjamin Rush, MD, War Hero and Signer of the Constitution

With purpose,

Dannion Brinkley

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