Category: Politics

  • May 15, 2018 Elections

    Our state primary elections are May 15, 2018. I want to take this opportunity to remind our members of a few things. HFI does not endorse any candidate. HFI WILL post about candidates when they do, say, or write something that pertains to health freedom or parental rights. We invite you to do the same. HFI will share events with you, such as town hall meetings, that may provide insight regarding the candidates. HFI wants to help educate voters as you head to the voting both. We want you to have the information that you need in order to make the best decision for you and your family.

  • H 546 Children can choose to be organ donors

    Did you all know that there is a bill in Idaho that, if passed, will allow children to decide to become organ donors at age 15? The teen must have parental consent under the age of 18. To further understand what you are agreeing to as an organ donor please watch the attached video.

    This bill passed with FULL support on the house floor and now it is on to the senate Health and Welfare Committee. Please educate our senators and ask them to vote NO when they hear H 546 in the H&W Committee.

    Chair – Lee Heider- (208) 332-1347
    Vice Chair – Mary Souza – (208) 332-1322
    Fred S Martin – (208) 332-1407
    Abby Lee – (208) 332-1325
    Mark Harris – (208) 332-1429
    Jeff Agenbroad – (208) 332-1329
    Dan Foreman – (208) 332-1405
    Maryanne Jordan – (208) 332-1352
    Tony Potts (208) 332-1313

    Email Blasts for H&W
    lheider@senate.idaho.gov, msouza@senate.idaho.gov, fmartin@senate.idaho.gov, alee@senate.idaho.gov, mharris@senate.idaho.gov, kanthon@senate.idaho.gov, jagenbroad@senate.idaho.gov, dforeman@senate.idaho.gov, mjordan@senate.idaho.gov,
    tpotts@senate.idaho.gov

  • Debunked: Faith Healing Religious Exemption Hysteria

    A political organization walked public graveyards, and then recorded the children’s names listed there. They then claimed that these children would have lived, had they been to a doctor. They fail to mention that they have little documentation to the cause of death. Nor do they reveal the fact that their numbers span the course of three decades. 

    Their political campaign “Let Them Live” is supported by Merck-funded vaccine advocate Paul Offit. Their intent is to change public opinion using nuggets of truth surrounded by a web of half-truths and lies, innuendos and assumptions. They are well-funded and skilled in using media-manipulation to create drama in order to elicit emotion and move legislative policy towards a preconceived goal. 

    That goal? The forced compliance of government mandated treatments by CPS and the State Health and Welfare Department. 

    It’s very sad, right? 182 childhood deaths in Idaho since 1971. 

    The deaths are true, but this campaign isn’t. It’s fake news.


    What do the actual numbers reveal?

    • We only have statistics for 5 YEARS! (not three decades!)
      The Child Fatality Review Team noted the following statistics based on their through analysis of public records, medical records and complete access to death records for Idaho: more children die under a doctor’s care than those who have never received treatment. The top causes of death in Idaho for infants is birth defects and SIDS, for children; accidents and suicide. These are the ONLY years available, since the Idaho Child Death Review Team was established in 2013 following an executive order from Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter (No. 2012-03). Any other numbers given are purely conjecture!
    2011:   195 children died after receiving medical care. *3 deaths identified as families who refused medical intervention.
    2012: 168 children died after receiving medical care. *2 deaths identified as families who refused doctor’s intervention
    2013:    182 children died after receiving medical care.  *5 deaths to newborn infants who were not born under direct medical intervention

    2014: 187 children died after receiving medical care.                           *NO DEATHS reported to families who refused medical intervention.

    2015: 163 children died after receiving medical care.                           *2 infants

    Infant Deaths

    The statistics clearly reveal that even our best medical care doesn’t guarantee saving our precious children’s lives. Annually more than 160 children die each year after receiving medical treatment. More than 2/3’rd of annual deaths for Idaho children are infants under the age of one. Here’s some aggregate figures that are documented by the State of Idaho in their annual report.
    The Idaho Child Death Review Team published this chart: Ten Leading Causes of Death to Idaho Child Residents, Ten-year aggregate, 2002-2011

    The figures used by the Idaho Let Them Live campaign are purely conjecture. 

    Without any medical history, this political campaign wishes to manipulate the public into thinking that 118 infants lives would have been saved “if only they have been under a doctor’s care.” The names listed were pulled from gravestones in a public cemetery. Those gravestones do not list a ’cause of death’. Families who laid their children to rest in the cemetery may have sought medical treatment. While the public and media doesn’t have access the personal history behind each headstone, the cause of death is investigated and recorded by the coroner.

    Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris, coroner since 1991, says that her office are called to every child death in the church. She doesn’t see signs of neglect or abuse. Current Idaho statutes protect children from abuse and neglect. “If we saw signs of child abuse we have a duty to report, and we would do so,” she said.

    So whose behind the manipulation of truth?

    Recently the director of the organization Protect Idaho Kids stated on his website that due to the fact they were unsuccessful in the Legislature to pass laws, they should manipulate public opinion.  They mixed together a recipe for fake news, using a false narrative and unsubstantiated statistics. They are then funding advertisements designed to look like news reports in the media outlets to sway public opinion.

    • In 2016 – 2017, the “Let Them Live” media campaign was driven by a false narrative of an Idaho woman who claims her rare heart condition was not treated by her parent’s involvement in a religious sect that refuses all medical treatment for their children. Mariah Walton’s mother has refuted the claim that she was trying to treat her daughter’s health condition with prayer. Mariah’s parents were UNAWARE of the rare heart defect. They used holistic care, chiropractic care as well as prayer to provide for their daughter’s asthmatic childhood symptoms. Bruce Wingate, April Hoy and other leaders of the campaign were been made aware that Mariah’s condition should not be construed as ‘faith healing’, yet they continued to promote the false narrative for political gain. See Sara Walton Brady’s testimony at Child At Risk:Faith Healing Exemption Workgroup 
    • 2017, the group wrote and supported a bill 1182 that would change Idaho child neglect statute to target CPS involvement for all parents who didn’t follow a standard treatment of care for their children. (See our article and analysis of S 1182)
    • In 2018, they hatched this newest campaign with little documentation, numbers stretching a course of three decades and a heart wrenching march with caskets from a the park to the Capitol. 

    What is their final goal?

    There is a very real move on the part of our Child Protective community to remove parental right to the choice of health care treatment options for their children. This organization seeks to create statute to increase governmental authority to remove children based on personal opinion that courts should mandate a specific method of care. Watch Jean fischer’s statements to the Legislative Workgroup August 2016.

    Year after year, legislation has been brought up by this organization to force parental compliance to state standards of medical care. Each year, legislators have responded saying the protection of religious freedom and parental authority must be upheld in Idaho.

    Every life is precious. Our hearts go out to each of these families. But this isn’t just about life, is it?

    Those coffins are a stark reminder of how precious life is, but this campaign also reminds us how precious truth is, applied truthfully. 

    So, let’s mourn the loss of life and stand up for the truth that keeps us free. 

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  • Buying Hemp Seeds Hearts at Costco in Idaho, Makes You (and Costco) Criminals?

    Trying to understand how H577  use and possession of Cannabidiol Oil (CBD) will affect your ability to purchase hemp products? John Green makes the Costco connection in this well written article. H577 will be heard in the House Health and Welfare Committee likely next week. We urge this committee to vote NO on H577 as it does not further health freedom in Idaho. The real problem seems to be the poorly written and confusing wording of the Idaho version of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. An Act that is as misunderstood by our Law Enforcement professionals, as by the citizenry at large. The terms, relevant to the discussion of the legality of CBD include Cannabis, Marijuana,Hemp, CBD and Tetrahydrocannabinols (THC).Hemp and CBD do not appear in, and are not defined by the Idaho iteration of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. This bill will effectively make already legal and attainable CBD only available through prescription. 

    UPDATE: H 577 is being held in committee by Chairman Heider and will not progress for further public review or legislative vote.
    Read more about that: 

    We heard Sen. Heider loud and clear through those closed doors: The people be damned

    Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/bill-manny/article204029989.html#storylink=cpy


    Be sure to send your comments to the Health and Welfare committee to vote NO ON H577.  A bill that will effectively make already legal and attainable CBD only available through prescription. 

    Email Blasts to Health & Welfare

    fwood@house.idaho.gov, kpacker@house.idaho.gov, cperry@house.idaho.gov, jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov, eredman@house.idaho.gov,
    mblanksma@house.idaho.gov, khanks@house.idaho.gov,
    bzollinger@house.idaho.gov, mkingsley@house.idaho.gov, jwagoner@house.idaho.gov, schew@house.idaho.gov, irubel@house.idaho.gov


    THE COSTCO CONNECTION:OR, DOES BUYING DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS HEMP SEED HEARTS AT A COSTCO IN IDAHO MAKE YOU (AND COSTCO) A CRIMINAL?
    By: John Green, B.S., J.D.

    That CBD Oil is good medicine is hardly debatable. Certainly, from at least 2010, scientists and medical professionals had come to a certain and realistic understanding ofthe unique medical benefits of Cannabinoids (CBD Oil).

    The “bottom line” of medical and scientific consensus with regard to CBD is that“…Overall, Cannabinoids have exhibited significant potential to be used as novel anti inflammatory agents and specific targeting of CB2 receptors holds the promise of mediating immuno suppressive effects without exerting psychotropic side effects. …”(Emphasis added)

    From the same medical documentation, it is apparent that, in fact, CBD reduces orprevents the psychotropic effect of THC.

    “Executive summary:

    • Cannabinoids, the active components of Cannabis sativa, and endogenous cannabinoids mediate their effects through activation of specific cannabinoid receptors known as cannabinoid receptor 1 and 2 (CB1 and CB2).
    • The cannabinoid system has been shown both in vivo and in vitro to be involvedin regulating the immune system through its immunomodulatory properties.
    • Cannabinoids suppress inflammatory response and subsequently attenuate disease symptoms. This property of cannabinoids is mediated through multiplepathways such as induction of apoptosis in activated immune cells, suppression of cytokines and chemokines at inflammatory sites and up regulation of FoxP3+ regulatory T cells.
    • Cannabinoids have been tested in several experimental models of autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and hepatitis and have been shown to protect the host from the pathogenesis through induction of multiple anti-inflammatory pathways.
    • Cannabinoids may also be beneficial in certain types of cancers that are triggered by chronic inflammation. In such instances, cannabinoids can either directly inhibit tumor growth or suppress inflammation and tumor angio genesis.”See: Executive Summary from: Cannabinoids as novel anti- inflammatory drugs

    SOURCE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828614/

    Marijuana and anything containing any THC (synthetic or naturally occurring) are,according to the Idaho UCSA, a Schedule I substance, which means they have the highest level of criminal penalty attached to their possession or sale. They have been declared to be “Hallucinogenic Substances”, by the Legislature or, more importantly, by Congress. 

    Are Hemp products, “Hallucinogenic”? Of course not! 

    It is clear, from the plain meaning of the statute, that Hemp Seed Hearts are NOT, “Marijuana” and neither would Hemp derived CBD be legally classified as “Marijuana” unless it contained synthetic THC, or more than a trace amount of naturally occurring THC. 

    (According to the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.)Idaho has adopted The Uniform Controlled Substances Act. It was drafted by the United States Department of Justice in 1969 and promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws while the federal Controlled Substances Act was being drafted. Modeled after the federal Act, the uniform act established a drug scheduling system. Every state has adopted the uniform act. 

    It should be noted, “…State authorities must designate, reschedule, or delete substances whenever notified of such federal action unless they invoke an elaborate notice-and-hearing procedure to resist the federal ruling”. Thus, the Uniform Act completes a top-down system of control in which drug policy originates through the international legislative process of treaty making and United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs scheduling decisions and is automatically implemented through Controlled Substances Act provisions requiring federal scheduling of internationally controlled drugs, and Uniform Controlled Substances Act provisions requiring state scheduling of federally controlled drugs.

    Aside from the fact that its adoption constitutes a total usurpation of the Citizens of Idaho’s Sovereign Authority, the CSA, is just another brick in the “New World Order” of international efforts to subvert the Constitutional Republic that is The United States of America.

    However, with regard to CBD and Hemp products in general, relying on our “Rule of Law” and the legal principal of stare decisis, Health Freedom Advocates, in Idaho must surely prevail on this important issue.

    Idaho has adopted the UCSA, in toto, and surrendered to Congress the authority to Schedule certain substances according to the standards that have been developed for that Act. The decision in Hemp Industries Ass’n v. DEA, 357 F.3d 1012, 1018 (9th Cir.2004), stands as precedent within the 9th Circuit and since, for the purposes of the UCSA,the issue with regard to Hemp products is settled and Congress controls the scheme of Drug Scheduling in conformity with that Act, the issue seems resolved for Idaho as well,since the Legislature has made no attempt to deviate from the federal scheme.

    Hemp products, CBD Oil and Hemp Seed Hearts, are not contemplated nor prohibited by the UCSA, despite, in some instances, trace amounts of naturally occurring THC.

    Idahoans should be free to continue enjoying their healthy, nutritious, Hemp Seed Hearts they have purchased at Costco and their inflammation reducing, health improving, Hemp derived CBD Oil, without worrying about the risk of being forced to pose for a Mug Shot!
    (Costco won’t be going to jail after all, it seems!)

    Read John Greens complete public testimony HERE


    BTW, my health freedom loving friends, John Green is running for Idaho Legislative Dist 2 Seat B as Representative Eric Redman is not re-running for election. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have another health freedom lover in the House of Representatives?

  • H 494 a step in the right direction

    H 494 will require providers inform parents that their child’s vaccination records will be entered into the tri-state database system. Most parents are not aware that the IRIS database exists and that they have the option to have their children’s confidential medical information expunged from the system by contacting the Health and Welfare Department after EACH doctor’s visit or school/daycare enrollment. HFI hopes to see IRIS a completely OPT IN system as it was in years past, however this is a step in the right direction.

    IRIS is used to assimilate the medical information regarding our child’s vaccinations (or lack thereof) without the knowledge or consent of a parent or guardians. We know from the problems many parents have reported that many parents have no idea that IRIS (the Idaho Immunization Registry) even exists, no idea that their children’s information is being entered into the system, no idea that the registry is voluntary and that they may opt out completely yet Idaho Code 39-4803 explicitly states that the registry is voluntary. 

    IDHW sends out a paper shortly after your child is born saying that they are enrolled into IRIS, but you receive that about a month after they are born and in the mix of all the other paperwork you get at the hospital or from 3rd parties after a child is born, it doesn’t stick out as anything important unless you already know what you’re looking at.

    The Health Department requires an online registration to OPT OUT of their system.

    While you can ask for your information to be removed from the system, it can and will, be entered back in at anytime by authorized users (doctor, schools, daycare). Your children’s medical information is likely in the database RIGHT NOW. You must OPT OUT to have your information removed from the IRIS database. However, once your information is shared within the government tracking database, authorized 3rd parties can take the information and use it as they wish. While you can opt out of IRIS and purge your child’s information from their IRIS system, you are unable to purge it from the third party systems once it has been accessed. 

    This is wrong, and a violation of privacy.

    Do you think our tracking system should be something you can OPT IN to if you wish rather than being forced in?

     H494 adds a layer of protection for the parents of Idaho by requiring parent’s signature that they have been notified that their children have been enrolled into IRIS. While you tell the legislators VOTE YES this might be a good opportunity to tell the legislators to make the immunization tracking system require parental consent BEFORE adding your children to a government database.  The statute already states its a voluntary tracking system. Let legislator’s know we need more than another piece of paper to sign at the doctor’s office! True Informed consent would be IRIS OPT IN!

    Email Blasts to Health & Welfare

    fwood@house.idaho.gov, kpacker@house.idaho.gov, cperry@house.idaho.gov, jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov, eredman@house.idaho.gov, mblanksma@house.idaho.gov, khanks@house.idaho.gov, bzollinger@house.idaho.gov, mkingsley@house.idaho.gov, jwagoner@house.idaho.gov, schew@house.idaho.gov, irubel@house.idaho.gov

    Committee Members

    Chair- Fred Wood –  (208) 332-1074

    Vice Chair – Kelley Packer –   (208) 332-1045

    Christy Perry – (208) 332-1044

    John Vander Woude –  (208) 332-1037

    Eric Redman –  (208) 332-1070

    Megan Blanksma – (208) 332-1054

    Karey Hanks – (208) 332-1056Mike Kingsley (208) 332-1133

    Jarom Wagoner (208) 332-1052

    Brian Zollinger – (208) 332-1073

    Sue Chew (208) 332-1049
    Ilana Rubel (208) 332-1034

     

    YOUR REPRESENTATIVES FOR 2018
    Email each group of Representatives separately to avoid the spam filters. 

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 1

    pamador@house.idaho.gov , nanderson@house.idaho.gov, randerst@house.idaho.gov , armstrong@house.idaho.gov, vbar@house.idaho.gov , sbedke@house.idaho.gov, mbell@house.idaho.gov, mblanksma@house.idaho.gov, jboyle@house.idaho.gov, vburtenshaw@house.idaho.gov,

     

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 2

    gchaney@house.idaho.gov , dcheatham@house.idaho.gov, schew@house.idaho.gov , clow@house.idaho.gov, gcollins@house.idaho.gov , bcrane@house.idaho.gov , tdayley@house.idaho.gov , gdemordaunt@house.idaho.gov, sdixon@house.idaho.gov, behardt@house.idaho.gov ,

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 3

    merpelding@house.idaho.gov, jgannon@house.idaho.gov , tgestrin@house.idaho.gov , mgibbs@house.idaho.gov , pgiddings@house.idaho.gov , khanks@house.idaho.gov , sharris@house.idaho.gov , shartgen@house.idaho.gov , jholtzclaw@house.idaho.gov , WendyHorman@house.idaho.gov

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 4 

    pjordan@house.idaho.gov, ckauffman@house.idaho.gov , rkerby@house.idaho.gov , pking@house.idaho.gov , mkingsley@house.idaho.gov, hkloc@house.idaho.gov , tloertscher@house.idaho.gov, lluker@house.idaho.gov, lmalek@house.idaho.gov, dmanwaring@house.idaho.gov

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 5

    jmccrostie@house.idaho.gov, pmcdonald@house.idaho.gov, rmendive@house.idaho.gov , smiller@house.idaho.govjmonks@house.idaho.gov, dmoon@house.idaho.gov, mmoyle@house.idaho.gov, nater@house.idaho.gov , kpacker@house.idaho.gov , jpalmer@house.idaho.gov

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 6

    cperry@house.idaho.gov , draybould@house.idaho.gov, eredman@house.idaho.gov , irubel@house.idaho.gov , hscott@house.idaho.gov , pshepherd@house.idaho.gov , esmith@house.idaho.gov , tstevenson@house.idaho.gov , ssyme@house.idaho.gov , jthompson@house.idaho.gov

    REPRESENTATIVES GROUP 7

     stoone@house.idaho.gov, cntroy@house.idaho.gov , jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov , jvanorden@house.idaho.gov , jwagoner@house.idaho.gov , mwintrow@house.idaho.gov , fwood@house.idaho.gov , ryoungblood@house.idaho.gov , czito@house.idaho.gov , bzollinger@house.idaho.gov 

    Did you hear back from a Senator or Representative. SHARE with Health Freedom Idaho. You can either forward the email to info@healthfreedomidaho.com

    Send a quick THANK YOU NOTE to the H 494 sponsors who agree the current system of automatic entry is a violation of privacy and informed consent.

    Quick Email list: mblanksma@house.idaho.gov, pamador@house.idaho.gov, jboyle@house.idaho.gov, gdemordaunt@house.idaho.gov, khanks@house.idaho.gov, mkingsley@house.idaho.gov, dmoon@house.idaho.gov, mmoyle@house.idaho.gov, jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov, bzollinger@house.idaho.gov

    • Representative Paul Amador
    • Representative Randy Armstrong
    • Representative Judy Boyle
    • Representative Gayann DeMordaunt
    • Representative Karey Hanks
    • Representative Mike Kingsley
    • Representative Dorothy Moon
    • Representative Mike Moyle
    • Representative John Vander Woude
    • Representative Bryan Zollinger
    • Representative Megan Blanksma* SPONSOR

    HISTORY OF IRIS:

    -IRIS was originally created to allow parents a centralized place to “store” their children’s vaccination records in case they lost their hard copies, and it would be easily accessible to parents, other legal guardians, child care providers, and health care workers if the parents allowed them access to it.

    -IRIS was also an opt-in program originally, so when a parent went in for a well child check, they could sign a waiver (along with the HIPAA form) that allowed their doctor to put their child’s vaccination information into IRIS (because it is private health information, protected by HIPAA). *we need to return to this type of system to protect our children’s privacy.

    -In 2012, IRIS became an opt-out program because doctors complained that the one extra page of paperwork was “too much work”. Now most parents don’t even know their children’s PHI is in IRIS. They can technically opt out by submitting a written statement to IDHW, but it doesn’t function that seemlessly.

    -In 2015, provisions were made to allow 3rd parties access to our children’s vaccination records by omitting the section that previously required records to be expunged from 3rd parties as well when parents opted out of IRIS.

    DANGERS:

    • Because it is an opt-out program, the majority of parents do not know their children’s information is in IRIS. IDHW sends out a paper shortly after your child is born saying that they are enrolled into IRIS, but you receive that about a month after they are born and in the mix of all the other paperwork you get at the hospital or from 3rd parties after a child is born, it doesn’t stick out as anything important unless you already know what you’re looking at.
    • Currently, personal medical records will be on file with IDHW until you opt out (and DHW states that it may take up to 2 weeks for you to opt out officially and your records be expunged from H&W)
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    • Your medical information will be given to third parties that DO NOT have to expunge your information, nor do these 3rd parties have to disclose to you that they HAVE your medical information (now, there are 3rd parties, but they are named in the current statute, whereas 2 years ago they were not in the original bill).

    Particularly since this is done without one’s consent, or even knowledge, it is a violation of HIPAA. Once you opt out, the burden is on you to ensure that H&W has actually expunged that info (and remember, other 3rd parties do not have to). This is not just any time you go to the doctor for vaccinations. This is every single time you go to a pharmacist, an ER, an urgent care, to get a mammogram, etc. It is hospital policy to ask patients about vaccination status every time they go in, and there is pressure to give you a flu shot and a DTaP booster every time you go in for any kind of injury, especially when you don’t remember when you last received them, even if you are sick (many hospitals even require pressure to be put on those who have immune disorders). This is wrong, and dangerous. “Intent” of the law doesn’t matter so much as the possibility for the law to be misused against the people. Not to mention the inherent violations of privacy written into this particular one.

    MORE ABOUT IRIS 

    IRIS OPT OUT 

    HB 91: Invasion of Privacy (IRIS)  last year they tried to expand the mandatory tracking to adults. The House voted it down stating reasons of privacy.

  • Health Dept Advises Schools to Fill Out Vaccine Exemption Form for Parents Who Refuse

    A closer look at S 1227 the Immunization Exemption Form. The contradictory IDAPA rule confuses the schools into believing that the parental right to an immunization exemption is contingent on Health Department’s acceptance of their completed form. The statute is clear a parent’s right to invoke vaccine exemptions for their children is NOT DEPENDENT on a form provided by the Health Department. The schools however, are being told during training from the Health and Welfare Department that not only is the form required, the schools are encouraged to complete the form on the parents behalf. 

    We need to require that the administrative policy adheres with statute. Regardless of your opinion on the efficacy of vaccines it is unacceptable to allow the department of health to mandate a discriminatory form for school and daycare enrollment that violates the intent of the law, invades privacy and is potentially self incriminating.  

    Idaho statute 39–4802(2) permits a parent/guardian: 

    1.  The right to choose whether to vaccinate their child.

    2.  The right to choose to participate or decline participation in the state registry system (IRIS)

    3.  The right to opt out without explanation of objection.

    AND most importantly – the right to opt out of vaccinations with a single  sentence parental statement without completing a form.  

    It is ludicrous to be handed a statement from anyone else, much less a government department, and told that you have to sign your name to it.  If you hand me a statement that YOU have prepared and told me to sign it I would say “NO, this is not MY signed statement!”  

    Once you sign this document is it now legally binding and it’s not even the actual intended statement of the parent.

    The Health Department’s Immunization form forces families to waive the right to privacy, violate their legally protected right to opt out of the state registry and provide the state an explanation for their reasoning to opt out of vaccines.

    The state–prescribed form, based on IDAPA 16.02.15,  is in violation of code 39–4802 and 39–4804. The form developed by IDHW falls far outside the scope of Idaho code 39–1118(2) and 39-4802(2).

    Now, you might say, “Have you seen the new form? They have taken the offensive language out of it.”  The Dept has changed that form on Feb 2017 and again on Oct 2017.  

    Still this form continues to request extraneous information that is not required by statute in order for a parent to invoke their vaccine exemption. The school administrators are being told by the Health Department to fill out this information even after the parents refused to do so. Allowing the Health Department to continue to supersede the statute with the administrative rule gives them a misplaced authority to change the form, demand additional information, and continue to cause confusion and outright discrimination at enrollment.

    On August 17 2017 Idaho Health and Welfare hosted a training seminar for schools regarding vaccine reporting. This is the Idaho Provider Immunization Education lead by Mezzelle Moore is the Immunization Outreach and Assessment Coordinator for the Idaho Immunization Program.  At the 45 minute mark of the presentation, during the question and answer session, Ms Moore is asked what to do if a parent refuses to fill out the form.

    She says and I quote, “I know that has come up recently in some outlets and here’s the deal with that so IDAPA requires the school to have that form on file. You’ve got a parent doesn’t want to sign that… you can try and fill that out as best you can. It’s really IDAPA that’s requiring that form…so the form should be on file whether or not they don’t want to sign it.” <LINK TO QUOTE: https://youtu.be/c1zdRKj3sYU?t=45m2s >

    The schools already have access to the child’s immunization records through the tracking system IRIS, and if the parent has opted out of IRIS disclosures tell me how the school admin can possibly know which vaccines the child has or has not received.   I am appalled that the school is being encouraged to fill out a form that has my signature on it without my consent.  Do you, the parent, feel this falls in line with the definition of forgery?

    Idaho Code 18-3203 . OFFERING FALSE OR FORGED INSTRUMENT FOR RECORD. Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered or recorded in any public office within this state, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, or registered, or recorded under any law of this state, or of the United States, is guilty of a felony.

    Contact the Senators and ask them to please pass SB 1227. It is imperative for the protection of parental authority and also the protection of  children’s health information. #S1227

    Chair – Lee Heider- (208) 332-1347 lheider@senate.idaho.gov
    Vice Chair – Mary Souza – (208) 332-1322 msouza@senate.idaho.gov
    Fred S Martin – (208) 332-1407 fmartin@senate.idaho.gov
    Abby Lee – (208) 332-1325 alee@senate.idaho.gov
    Mark Harris – (208) 332-1429 mharris@senate.idaho.gov
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  • Michael Snyder Interview with Natural News About Liberty, Health Freedom and Smaller Government

    HFI’s Notes: Michael Snyder has been an advocate locally for health freedom and parental rights throughout Idaho. Michael was first on the scene in Boise, when Sara’s son was denied access to kindergarten after the school refused to accept her parental statement of vaccine exemption per Idaho code. (See the video here). He also took time to alert the public about the newborn removed from parents at the hospital after they refused the HepB vaccine for their son.

    Idaho congressional candidate Michael Snyder is founder of The Economic Collapse Blog, among other sites. In a recent interview with Mike Adams of Natural News, he shared his stances on liberty, health freedom and small government. Michael also shared why he is running for Congress: to ensure that current and future generations of Americans can live in freedom and prosperity.

    Excerpts from the Natural News interview and from a Health Freedom News article about the interview are below. 

    Snyder said that one of his biggest influences was then-Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican with very strict limited-government views (an early advocate for ‘draining the swamp’ before it became popularized by President Donald J. Trump).

    Once a D.C. lawyer, Snyder moved with his wife, Meranda, to Idaho six years ago, where he began focusing on writing. After rising to the top of the so-called “alternative media,” in which he focused exclusively on the promotion of individual liberty, health freedom and small government, he decided it was time to take his game to the next level — especially after Donald J. Trump shocked the GOP and Washington establishments to beat Hillary Clinton in November 2016.

    Though he supported Trump, “I didn’t think he’d win,” Snyder admits. That makes sense, given the force arrayed against him: A $1 billion Clinton war chest, the entire mainstream media, and the fact that — as we now know — there were unseen forces working behind the scenes to undermine his candidacy (and now his presidency).

    “[Trump] showed if we work together, if we fight, that literally, anything is possible,” Snyder said. “So I believe we have a window to potentially take our government back.”

    On his radar, if he makes it to D.C.: Fights against “the vaccine industry, GMOs, the Federal Reserve — all the things the liberty movement” supports.

    To the issue of vaccines and, in particular, the dangers they pose, the Health Ranger noted that during Trump’s candidacy, he spoke out regarding the safety of giving so many vaccines to children so quickly, which he intimated could be linked to the rising epidemic of autism. He even spoke to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about a commission to investigate “vaccine safety” shortly before being inaugurated.

    But, as Adams pointed out, both men — along with every other ‘vaccine safety advocate’ — has been savagely attacked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, physicians’ groups, the “mainstream” media and Big Pharma for their views, and he says Snyder should be ready for that.

    Asked how one lawmaker who would immediately come under siege for his or her views can make a meaningful difference, Snyder said it is possible for anyone to educate the public and raise awareness about vaccine dangers or any issue, given the national platform of Congress.

    Besides, Snyder says, he’s trying to be realistic about how he’d be viewed in D.C. should he win.

    “I’m very rapidly going to become the most hated member of the House of Representatives by the mainstream media, I understand that in advance,” said Snyder. “It’s going to be [like] going into a war zone,” politically speaking.

    He’s right about that. Trump has been under constant assault by the Deep State and the D.C. Swamp creatures featuring the media in a starring role since he had the bad taste to actually beat the most corrupt presidential nominee ever. And he’s the president.

    That reality doesn’t phase Snyder.

    “We’re not going to Washington to be part of ‘the club,’ we’re not going to be accepted or make friends with anyone else,” he said. “We’re going there to fight for the things that we believe in.” And, presumably, that would be the things voters want him to fight for.

    “In order to ultimately get what we want, we’re going to have to get more like-minded people with us in Washington,” said Snyder.

    No truer words.

    But he’ll be in good company: Trump has already broken down the barrier, so now in the breach must charge good men and women of character and honor to fill in the ranks behind him.

    Like Michael Snyder.

    Check out his campaign website for more information, where you can also donate: www.MichaelSnyderForCongress.com.

  • CBD Oil. The Bill and Its Unintended Consequences

    Well intended bills can have unintended consequences. 

    Rep. Dorothy Moon’s bill HB410 is just that. Rep. Dorothy Moon is a wonderful legislator and a freedom fighter. She has heard the voice of her constituents that are asking for CBD oil to be legalized in our great state. She attempted several version of the bill, none of which the Attorney General would support. Understandably, Rep. Moon wanted to bring a bill that would be successful, but in so doing the proffered legislation has lost the liberty that she intended to provide. You see, the Attorney General has a compelling interest for the state, while legislators should have a compelling interest for the people.

    After days of study I have come to the conclusion that some of the unintended consequences of this bill are the following:

    • The citizen (who must be 18 years of age) is required to go to an MD. The MD will have to indicate that the individual suffers from an illness and may benefit from treatment with cannabidiol. Do you want the decision to use CBD products taken out of your hands and put into the hands of a medical doctor?
    • Once you submit to the authority of the MD, you will then have to submit to the authority of the state by providing your name, address, photo identification, along with any other information the board considers necessary in order to obtain a registration card.
    • What if you want to use CBD oil for your child? Well, the rules are a bit different. You, the parent, will then have to acquire a signed statement from a neurologist indicating that a minor in the parent’s care suffers from an illness and may benefit from treatment of cannabidiol oil. Parents, do you want this decision taken out of your hands and placed into the hands of a neurologist who may or may not have education in CBD oil at all? You will then have to continue the process of applying to the state for your registration card.
    • Keep in mind that the card is only good for ONE YEAR so you will have to repeat this rigmarole YEARLY.
    • A board will have to be created to oversee these registration cards. This costs the taxpayers’ money. This board will maintain a database of records including the name of each registrant and the name of each minor receiving care from the registrant. Do you want you or your child’s personal health information kept and overseen by a state run board?

    The police will then have to start enforcing this new law. I can see it now. The police officer pulls over the soccer mom on her way to taking her kids to school. He discovers her smoothie is made from hemp milk! Gasp! “I’m sorry Ma’am but do you have a registration card for that hemp milk?” Hopefully she didn’t add the hemp hearts from Costco to her smoothie that morning. That’s right! Your hemp products such as shirts, twine, purses, cooking oil, and milk will come under the authority of this law. What a waste of taxpayer money!

    The registration card is really the crux of this issue and is what the Attorney General required in order to support the bill. Now why do you suppose that it is important to the Attorney General that a registration card be required? MORE REGULATION and BUREAUCRACY!

    There are some pretty scary consequences to having the state tracking the method you choose for healing. Most do not understand the marijuana plant nor the properties that provide healing without enough THC to bring the high that most people associate with the plant. Most do not understand that when a product has less than .3% THC that it is considered food according to the federal definition. (See https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/cbd-oil-from-hemp).

    Do we really want to be begging the state for permission to use the products that we see fit to use? According to my research, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that refined sugar is more dangerous than hemp products.

    In other states that require a registration card for marijuana we see that the state is denying the citizen’s right to gun ownership.

    Could the government potentially require gun owners to turn in their firearms?

    An Oregon mother had her child taken by CPS and put into foster care for months. The mother was using marijuana recreationally which is allowed in the state of Oregon. The boyfriend had a registry card as both a grower and a patient but the child was still taken into shelter care because he was growing the plants. The mother did eventually win in court and got her daughter back but at what cost both financially and emotionally?

    You see, the medical marijuana card may protect the right to obtain and use a substance but it is being used to target other rights. I think that we should learn from what is happening in that other states and not open the door here.

    There are more possible unintended consequences to consider about this registration card. How will this record affect a truck driver’s CDL, a practitioner’s medical license, the cosmetologist’s license or any other occupational licensing for that matter?

    We should never expect our legislators to hand out laws like candy. They are to uphold their oath of office which is to support the constitution. Each legislator takes this oath when sworn into office, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Idaho, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of senator (or representative, as the case may be) according to the best of my ability.”

    I believe that the citizens should be asking for a better path that would Rep. Moon to both uphold her oath and also make CBD oil available to all who would like to use it.

    We will have more information coming out soon for those looking to understand the multiple factors surrounding this issue. Idaho’s attorney general interprets Idaho law to mean that any amount of THC is a controlled substance and the DEA has overstepped their bounds. 

    There is a lot to learn here in order to be prepared to defend your rights to access something as benign as CBD oil with less than .3% THC. When we see such a desire to control something with proven useful, nourishing, and healing properties we must ask the all-important question, “WHY?”


    UPDATE on the status of the bill. 

    Dorthy Moon removed the tracking portion and the bill got a new name – HB 577.

    It passed Idaho State Affairs Committee with a solid 12-0 vote. 

    House voted in favor of the bill with a whopping 59-11 vote ‘Aye’. 

    The Bill stalled in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee as Chairman Heider refused to allow the bill to be heard. 

  • Deceptive ‘Parental Rights Amendment’ will it hand over control of your children to federal government?

    Parental Rights Amendment is it a Trojan horse for government intrusion? The name, “parental rights amendment” (PRA), sounds so good!  A closer look reveals that by enumerating our parental rights and responsibilities in the text of our governing document we are actually delegating authority over our children to the government.

    The Parental Rights Amendment actually strips parents of their God-delegated authority over their children, and transfers that authority to the federal government. 

    See the rights LISTED in the constitution are those few and defined powers that the founders wanted to have power over. These powers ‘we the people’ granted to the government.

    James Madison, Father of our Constitution, says in Federalist No. 45 (3rd para from end):

    “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which … concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”

    Do you see? We the People delegated only “few and defined” powers to the federal government over the Country at Large. These are the “enumerated powers” actually listed in the Constitution. 2

    These enumerated powers over the Country at Large concern:

    • Military defense, international commerce & relations;
    • Control of immigration and naturalization of new citizens;
    • Creation of a uniform commercial system: Weights & measures, patents & copyrights, money based on gold & silver, bankruptcy laws, mail delivery & some road building; and
    • With some Amendments, protect certain civil rights and voting rights.

    It is only with respect to the “enumerated powers” that the federal government has lawful authority over the Country at Large. All other powers are “reserved to the several States” and The People. 3

    Parents have Responsibilities to their children, not “rights” over them. The Parental Rights Amendment would transform “families” and “children” from matters over which the federal government now has no lawful authority to matters under the total control of the federal government.

    We have to undo the brainwashing that has happened to us. They have taught us to believe that laws protect us so that we will rally for them.  The Civil Government has no lawful authority over our families, our parenting style or our children. By adding and defining “parental rights” to the constitution, be default, adds power to the federal government authority over our children. If we give over our God-given authority over our children to the government, we can never get that back. Parents are supposed to provide for, care for, teach, protect, and educate their children. NOT civil government! The Parental Rights Amendment is a delegation of lawmaking power over families and children to the federal government. Congress may make whatever laws it pleases pertaining to YOUR children; the Executive Branch may issue whatever rules or orders it pleases pertaining to YOUR children – and under Section 3 of the Parental Rights Amendment, federal judges will decide whether these laws, orders & rules serve the government’s interest. If so, you lose.

    The Ninth Amendment, or Amendment IX of the United States Constitution is the section of the Bill of Rights that states that there are other rights that may exist aside from the ones explicitly mentioned, and even though they are not listed, it does not mean they can be violated. Parental rights are our inalienable rights. It’s like my right to breathe. Some people may say that it adds to climate change so I should breath less often.  Am I going to request a law to protect my right to breath? No, because it’s my inalienable right to breath.  

    Do you believe that our forefathers left parental rights out of the Constitution by accident? Did they forget? Did they not see the need?  I don’t believe that is the case.  I believe they were meant to be sacred and untouched by lawmakers and they made this point resoundingly clear by not addressing these God-given rights in the Constitution. If this is added to the Constitution our parental rights will be open for debate and interpretation. My belief is that instead of trying to legislate freedom (which is an oxymoron) we remember that We The People are the government and take it back. 

    “There are two potential violators of man’s rights: the criminals and the government. The greatest achievement of the United States was to draw a distinction between these two — by forbidding to the second the legalized version of the activities of the first.”3

    We’ve allowed scoundrels to represent us because we voted them in. I believe the way that we win this war is to hold to the rights that they fear the most, our God-given rights, and take back our government by voting in liberty lovers. When we battle with our God-given rights we are above the law made by men. If we succumb to their battlefield we will lose.

    This may not be the popular opinion. It is not the quick fix that we all want but I do believe that it is the only way that we actually win.

    Don’t be duped into giving your parental authority to the federal government. The Parental Rights Amendment is NOT the answer.

    Miste Karlfeldt,
    Executive Director

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/48/text

  • 9 reasons we have a “sick”, not “health care” system

    The conventional medical system and hospitalized care is now in the Top 3 leading causes of mortality, as announced by Johns Hopkins University in 2016.

    Does this sound like a system you would choose to participate in?

    Here are 9 reasons we have a “sick” and not a “health care” system:

    1. Any system which forces the population to seek and/or use only one methodology or approach to treatment for addressing health issues or face denial of coverage, is not “health care”. 

    When there is only one accepted method of treating health care issues (via drugs or surgery, for example), when consumers lack education, choices and freedom about their health, this is not health care

    Any time there is a risk to a treatment or medical procedures, there needs to be a choice. When we are forced to accept treatments that don’t heal our bodies or solve health care problems, and we continue to participate in treatment that doesn’t solve the problem, we are trapped in a system that effectively keeps patients and consumers in a state of being unwell.

    2. Any system which penalizes those who chose to go outside the system for “alternatives” or holistic treatment, is not “health care”. 

    Punishing citizens by forcing them to pay into a system which they do not want to participate is not a free society and not only falls under the category of discrimination, but is a direct violation of human rights. Reasoning that our health care system is too costly for certain members of its population to afford it is not justification to mandate citizens to fund or participate in a system. There’s a word for this: it’s called fascism.  

    If leaders of the health care industry possessed a sincere desire to make wellness achievable and accessible to all, they would advocate for holistic health alternatives, education and treatment. If these leaders were willing to provide information to patients and consumers that would allow them to experience wellness, we would see dramatic changes in our death and disease rates.

    Instead, what we have is a system that continues to create dependencies on drugs, surgery and other treatments that are costly and don’t heal or contribute to recovery. Making these changes would significantly impact the overall cost of health because less of our population would be sick and thus would be using medical services. This is the definition of a “sick care” system, and it is extremely profitable for the corporations involved. 

    (As an aside, it’s fair to call it an industry since it generates profit, and quite a lot of it. According to Statistic Brain, the health care industry generates $1.668 trillion annually. Let that sink in.)

    3. Any system that uses treatments that manage rather than heal, and fails to improve health or well-being of its subscribers or members is not  “health care”.  

    Drugs, surgery, and other procedures do not prevent future health issues nor resolve the root of the problem. Instead, those who receive such treatments and are administered pharmaceutical products become looped into a system that requires continual appointments and treatment, vaccines, and renewal of drug prescriptions. This is not wellness, but “managed illness”. All drugs have side-effects which can cause a downward spiral of health issues, and still no resolution of the cause of the original health problem.

    4. Any system that refuses to cover care that goes outside the scope of the conventional medical model, or attempts to discredit other modes of medical or health treatments is not “health care”. 

    The majority of insurance providers do not provide coverage for complimentary or holistic treatments. Instead, most covered services include only conventional treatments.

    When patients seek medical advice and are told that if they do not follow the recommendations provided they will be dismissed as a patient or are endangering themselves or their child of further disease or death, this is not health care.

    What motivation would there be for a system to continually attempt to tarnish or invalidate other types of health care other than to protect its own interests? There’s really only one answer to this: profits and power. 

    5. Any system that relies upon drugs, surgery, vaccines and other similar treatments to treat health care issues does not support wellness. This reactionary, rather than preventative approach, is not “health care”. 

    Although sometimes we do need drugs or surgery, these should be exceptions to the rule of health treatments; not what we use for every health care scenario. We are not drug, vaccine, or surgery deficient.

    The conventional medical model does not educate its patients on preventative habits or lifestyle choices that could lead to wellness. Instead, it recommends taking prescriptions to manage symptoms, consumption of a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet with more plants and grains, increased exercise, and diagnostics including mammography and colonoscopy for “prevention” of disease. 

    Low-fat diets have actually been shown to lead to health issues, and no amount of exercise will create health in someone who is unwell and not addressing existing nutritional deficiencies in their body from consuming a low-fat diet. Contrary to what we’ve been told for decades, cholesterol is actually essential for for every aspect of health including cell structure, hormones, digestion, weight management, stress, brain function, metabolism and more. It’s the source of that cholesterol which makes the difference: cholesterol from animal foods that come from confinement operations versus organically-grown, pasture-raised environments are completely opposite on the spectrum. We can definitely expect to experience disease and chronic health issues from consuming the former, while choices from the second can be extremely beneficial and health-supporting.

    Diagnostics such as colonoscopies and mammograms involve risk due to exposing tissue to radiation and compression (which can lead to cancer), drug reactions, and perforation of human tissue. 

    Each of these recommendations can and have lead to further incidence of disease, yet are advocated and endorsed by conventional medical practitioners and guidelines. Preventative diagnostics have been known to fail to detect or prevent the disease that is being screened. Read more about mammograms from Dr. Mercola.  

    6. Any system that engages in bullying, coercion, threats, intimidation, discouragement of research and education, or disregards empowerment toward the patient or consumer is not “health care”. 

    Patients and consumers regularly report receiving condescending, disrespectful, bullying and unfair treatment by practitioners when they decline or request more information on specific types of treatment. Any practitioner that engages in this type of behavior or approach is not practicing “health care”.

    7. Any system which repeatedly discredits, undermines or disesteems medical doctors, nurses, scientists and others including holistic practitioners who have taken their education and research outside of conventional approaches and treatments and gained an understanding of the importance of holistic approaches to address health care issues is not a “health care system”. 

    When a doctor or practitioner goes outside of accepted answers or language about a treatment or procedure, the typical response is that said individual is not credible or has a soiled reputation, is a “quack”, or is discredited in some other way. In some cases, the individual may be targeted to lose his or her license, or may even die in a mysterious manner. Are these deaths simply coincidences? Erin from Health Nut News did an expose on the more than 70 health practitioners who died between 2015 and 2016 from unexplained causes.

    8. Any system which denies the existence of studies and research showing risks and flaws within the conventional health care approach is not “health care”. 

    There are thousands upon thousands of studies and papers revealing the risks of conventional care approaches, yet many who are confronted with this information or evidence will dismiss and attempt to discredit those who bring this information to light. Why do those within the conventional system fight so vehemently against this information? Why do the defenders of the conventional medical system use the same arguments again and again, and without unbiased, scientific documentation? These responses beg the question: if you want to know who is oppressing you, find out who you are not allowed to question or raise skepticism toward. What do these staunch defenders have to worry about if the risks and flaws of the medical system, challenged by those who aren’t satisfied with the status quo, are wrong?

    9. Any system whose practitioners and representatives oppose parents who provide testimonials of children who have experienced vaccine-injury or death is not “health care”. 

    There are literally tens of thousands of parents who have shared their stories about how vaccines have damaged or killed their children, many of them with similar symptoms and reactions. The majority of representatives in the conventional health care system insist that these parents are incorrect, uneducated, hysterical, irrational, abusive, “conspiracy-theory driven” or even criminals. Most parents who question vaccines were pro-vaccine at one time. The reason they began to question is because they experienced the tragedy of a vaccine-injured or dead child. This is not a place that most parents would ever want to find themselves in; and yet, more and more are having to endure that very scenario. Those parents wish more than anything that they could go back in time and make a different decision. Sadly, once a vaccine is administered, it cannot be “un-given”.

    Although we are assured otherwise, the science is not settled. If science is not allowed to be tested, questioned, or challenged, then we are clearly stifled and arrested as a civilization which cannot move forward in its acquisition and understanding of knowledge and information. The conventional medical system is by no means a “gold standard”. There have been and continue to be examples of those who use it and experience suffering and death as a result of their choice … and yet we are expected to regard this system as infallible and as possessing a guarantee about how to treat and “cure” illness when it appears more than obvious that it is anything but that level of reliable or sound.

    Recommended ways to maintain wellness are as follows:

    • Eat a diet of real, organic, nourishing foods including grassfed meats, pasture-raised poultry and eggs and raw dairy foods, organic or pesticide, herbicide and genetically-modified-free fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, and other foods . 
    • Eliminate sugars, grains, processed and packaged food products. 
    • Prepare foods at home, from scratch using ingredients rather than jars, packages, or prepared meals.
    • Consider traditional preparation of foods such as fermentation (sauerkraut, pickles, yogurt, kefir, sour cream), slow-cooking on low heat meats, fish and poultry using homemade meat broth and stocks from bones, vegetables, sea salt and filtered water. These methods render foods more nutritious and easier-to-digest as well as heal the digestive tract to enable higher absorption rate of nutrients.
    • Eliminate toxins from your environment including commercial cleaners, detergents, air fresheners, candles, shampoos, deodorant, toothpaste, soaps, body, beauty, and personal care products. Opt for natural products or make your own at home. Many cleaning and personal care products are easy to make at home with a few ingredients including kitchen and bathroom cleaners made with apple cider vinegar and baking soda, or plain vinegar and lemon juice, deodorant made with coconut oil and essential oils (such as lavender, lemongrass or peppermint), body butter made with equal parts of coconut oil, shea butter, olive oil and cocoa butter.

    When we eat better, we feel better and tend to get sick less often. Less illness leads to a healthier body and less chance of long-term, chronic illness such as heart disease, diabetes, depression, brain fog, memory issues, obesity, inflammation, and other auto-immune disorders.

    Health share programs

    Here is a list of health share programs that offer health care “coverage” for less than the average insurance plan (especially if you factor in the penalty for not participating), and provide you and your family with a means to lower expenses that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to manage on your own.

    These are not insurance companies, they are share programs that provide coverage to members when needed. Members of these groups are by definition “exempt” from penalties imposed if you opt out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA aka “Obamacare”).

    Altrua

    Aliera

    Liberty

    My Christian Care

    Samaritan Ministries