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04/07/2006
F.A.N.S. Vows
to Fight Kennedy Legislation; Preserve Patients’ Rights From Excessive
Bureaucratic Intrusion
WASHINGTON -- “If Big Pharma has its way, the only rights a patient will have is the right to pay higher premiums for substandard medical care, while their health continues to suffer. Right now, drug lobbyists are working hard with members of Congress and the FDA to make this scheme a reality,” said Steven F. Hotze, MD, director of Project: FANS—a grassroots effort to protect Americans’ access to safe, natural medical solutions. Dr. Hotze’s statement refers to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals’ on-going efforts to manipulate the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Congress into restricting Americans’ access to Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), which the drug conglomerate views as its competition. “We know that congressional staff members have been working on legislation that could essentially create an unethical, illegal monopoly in the hormone replacement market,” said Hotze in response to news that Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) office is currently drafting legislation that would federally overregulate the compounding pharmacy industry to the point that it would unduly burden and interfere with the doctor-patient relationship of those using bio-identical hormones. “For decades, Sen. Kennedy has proudly proclaimed he is a champion of women’s health issues, but pushing a bill like this is not only bad medicine, but an insult to the American women he claims to support.” In response to these threats, Project: FANS has launched an aggressive online petition calling on the U.S. Congress to support Americans’ freedom of access to natural medical solutions with a goal of 100,000 signatures by May 31, 2006. The petition can be viewed at www.projectfans.org . “In the 90s we faced a similar threat to maintaining our health when the federal government made a strong push for socialized medicine,” observed Hotze. “Now, we must work together to preserve patients’ rights and prevent a government- sanctioned medical monopoly that would spell disaster for the medical and fiscal well-being of Americans.”
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