
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 14, 1991                   TAG: 9102140497
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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PUT HEALTH-CARE RIGHTS IN BASIC LAW

IN A RECENT issue of Nutrition Forum, a Food and Drug Administration enforcement official announced plans for "greater use of criminal prosecution in health fraud cases." Health fraud, according to the medical establishment and dieticians, applies only to wholistic health-care advocates who don't conform with physicians' concept of medication with side effects causing iatrogenic (medical-induced) diseases.

Meanwhile, health-care cost skyrockets to great heights; sickness predominates. Adding health-care freedom to the U.S. Constitution initiates the only sensible solution.

Amendment proposed by the Coalition for Alternatives in Nutrition and Health Care:

"The Congress shall make no law which restricts any individual's right to choose and to practice the type of health care they shall elect for themselves or their children for the prevention or treatment of any disease, injury, illness or ailment of the body or the mind."

Urge congressmen to introduce, co-sponsor or vote for a health-care-rights amendment. Insurance companies would recognize inexpensive health care. ANNE BRESSLER SALEM

by CNB