Category: Politics

  • SUPPORT SB 1050 for Immunization Exemption Form Compliance

    SUPPORT SB 1050 for Immunization Exemption Form Compliance

    IDAHO STATUTES CLEARLY STATE: VACCINES ARE NOT MANDATED FOR DAYCARE or SCHOOLS. LAWS CLEARLY STATE A PARENT’S WRITTEN STATEMENT IS AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTION. The Public Health Department refuses to accept a parents’ written affidavit, which leads many to wonder HOW IS THAT LEGAL?
    Idaho’s Health & Welfare Department created a mandatory immunization form that falls FAR OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF CURRENT STATUTES and is discriminatory to the minority of parents who legally choose to OPT OUT of the full CDC vaccine schedule. Parents are forced to sign IDHW’s mandatory form that demands parents state that they are putting their children at risk. No parent should be forced to sign a form that is self-incriminatory in order to enroll their child into a daycare program or public school.
    The Public Health department is getting away with creating their own rules and children are being denied access to daycare and schools.
    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 enrollment that violates privacy and is potentially self-incriminating. 

    SB 1050 Need To Be Heard
    There is A LOT going on behind the scenes to shut down the bill SB 1050.
    (SB 1050 is the HFI sponsored bill that would keep the Health Departments administrative policy in line with the current statute.)
    It appears we are poking a bear (aka the Health Department) that is use to getting its own way! In order to protect liberty, we need a GIANT response. The Health Department is making every attempt to not only shut down our efforts to keep them ‘in line’ with existing statutes. Tell our elected officials they MUST SUPPORT SB 1050.
    This is easy with the Testify App

    Click here to get Testifi on Google Play.

    Click here to get Testifi in the Apple App Store.

    and send a quick message “Support SB 1050” to:
    1. The Governor
    2. Your District Legislators
    3 The Health and Welfare Committees 
    SB 1050 keeps administrative policy from usurping Idaho law. It allows parents to make an informed choice to opt out of vaccines without discrimination, revealing private medical information and without being entered into a tracking database without consent.
    LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
    If you don’t have Testifi here’s phone/email list: 
    Governor Butch Otter Office
    Email
    334-2100
    Senate Health Committee which approved the RS to go to print as a bill 
    Agenbroad 332-1329 jagenbroad@senate.idaho.gov
    Anthon 332-1346 kanthon@senate.idaho.gov
    Foreman 332-1405 dforeman@senate.idaho.gov
    Harris 332-1429 mharris@senate.idaho.gov
    Heider 332-1347 lheider@senate.idaho.gov
    Jordan 3321412 mjordan@senate.idaho.gov
    Lee 332-1325 alee@senate.idaho.gov
    Martin 332-1358 fmartin@senate.idaho.gov
    Souza 332-1322 msouza@senate.idaho.gov
    House Health Committee
    Blanksma 332-1054 mblanksma@house.idaho.gov
    Chew 332-1049 schew@house.idaho.gov
    Gibbs 332-1042 mgibbs@house.idaho.gov
    Hanks 332-1056 khanks@house.idaho.gov
    Hixon 332-1052 bhixon@house.idaho.gov
    Kingsley 332-1133 mkingsley@house.idaho.gov
    Packer 332-1045 kpacker@house.idaho.gov
    Perry 332-1044 cperry@house.idaho.gov
    Redman 332-1070 eredman@house.idaho.gov
    Rubel 332-1034 irubel@house.idaho.gov
    VanderWoude 332-1037 jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov
    Wood 332-1074 fwood@house.idaho.gov
    Zollinger 332-1073 bzollinger@house.idaho.gov
    SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY 

    RESOURCES: 

    There are 2 forms provided by the Department of Health. Legally you are required to make a statement of objection (you do not have to clarify that statement), your child’s name and birthday. Any additional information required by schools or the Health Department is illegal.
    SCHOOL VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM
    CHILDCARE VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM

  • Idaho Health & Welfare Committees 2018

    Idaho Health & Welfare Committees 2018

    Take some time today to download the Testifi app (by Idaho Freedom Foundation) this convenient app will let you send a text, audio or video to your legislator, committee members quick and easily. 

    Click here to get Testifi on Google Play.

    Click here to get Testifi in the Apple App Store.

    House Health and Welfare Committee 2018

    Chair- Fred Wood –  (208) 332-1074   fwood@house.idaho.gov

    Vice Chair – Kelley Packer –  (208) 332-1045   kpacker@house.idaho.gov

    Christy Perry – (208) 332-1044   cperry@house.idaho.gov

    John Vander Woude –  (208) 332-1037   jvanorden@house.idaho.gov

    Eric Redman –  (208) 332-1070   eredman@house.idaho.gov

    Megan Blanksma – (208) 332-1054   mblanksma@house.idaho.gov

    Karey Hanks – (208) 332-1056   khanks@house.idaho.gov

    Brian Zollinger – (208) 332-1073   bzollinger@house.idaho.gov

    Mike Kingsley  (208) 332-1133  mkingsley@house.idaho.gov

    Jarom Wagoner  (208) 332-1052 jwagoner@house.idaho.gov

    Sue Chew  (208) 332-1049 schew@house.idaho.gov

    Ilana Rubel  (208) 332-1034 irubel@house.idaho.gov

    Email list for House Health & Welfare Committee 2018

    fwood@house.idaho.gov, kpacker@house.idaho.gov,  cperry@house.idaho.gov, jvanorden@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

    Senate Health and Welfare Committee 2018
    Meeting Time: M, T, W, Th, 3:00 pm, Room WW54

    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
    Kelly Arthur Anthon – (208) 332-1327
    Jeff Agenbroad –  (208) 332-1329
    Dan Foreman – (208) 332-1405
    Maryanne Jordan – (208) 332-1352

    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
  • What is an RS and a Bill.

    What is an RS and a Bill.

    Here are the steps to make Idaho laws through the House of Representatives (legislation can also originate in the Senate):

    1.       Draft legislation called a “RS” (Routing slip) is introduced into the appropriate House Committee.

    2.      Committee members hear the RS and decide if it gets assigned a bill number to become a bill or not.

    3.      Numbered bills get put on the appropriate committee agenda by the committee chairman.

    4.      A hearing is held on the bill and committee members hear testimony. This is where public input is important! Committee members vote on the bill and determine if it will die or get referred it to the “Floor” for a vote by the entire body.

    5.      Once a bill passes the House Floor it will be sent to the Senate and goes through a similar process.

     

    A citizen’s voice is heard the loudest and has the greatest impact at a committee level. 

  • Crave Liberty? Idaho Ranks #1 in Health Freedom

    Crave Liberty? Idaho Ranks #1 in Health Freedom

    The John Locke Foundation just published its First In Freedom Index, a report that compares and ranks the relative freedom of all fifty states.

    The North Carolina-based think tank says it has an institutional commitment to “individual liberty and limited, constitutional government,” weighed four different variables to compile the rankings.

    To see their full results on all four variables visit http://ijr.com/2015/02/254129-state-rank-first-freedom-index/

    Here is a graphic representation for the rankings for health care freedom:

    #1 is Idaho and #50 is Vermont.

    George Mason University’s Mercatus Center also released a “Freedom in the 50 States” map, that includes more than 200 economic and personal variables in their calculations.

    The results from George Mason University on the ‘least free’ state agree with the John Locke Foundation, placing New York at the bottom. But the two lists differ on the ‘most free’ state, with Mercatus Center putting North Dakota first.

    Health Freedom Idaho is dedicated to KEEPING IDAHO #1 in Health Freedom. We have seen the tide of vaccine mandates and liberty stealing legislation in the states that surround us and are well aware that Idaho’s freedom can easily slip away in one legislative session. 

    Join Us! Become a Health Freedom Idaho Member

  • Facebook has announced that SNOPES will decide for them which sites are ‘fake’.

    Facebook has announced that SNOPES will decide for them which sites are ‘fake’.

    Facebook has announced that SNOPES will decide for them which sites are ‘fake’.  So, now, real news will go away just like it did on the networks.  #TruthAlwaysFindsAWay #TruthWins – Miste Karlfeldt, Director of Health Freedom Idaho’s Facebook status.

    Facebook has announced it will introduce warning labels on stories they deem to be “fake news,” with the help of partisan “fact checking” organisations such as Snopes and PolitiFact.
    Stories deemed to be false will now be “flagged” by Facebook, with an accompanying red label claiming the story is “disputed by 3rd Party Fact-Checkers.”

    Who will check Facebook stories?  Organizations run by a college journalism department or a worldwide research team? Nope.

    Snopes a website/blog run by a husband and wife team in Southern California. David and Barbara Mikkeslon, started the site in 1995 as a part time project, which later turned into a full time effort.  

    And other organizations such as Politifact, and FactCheck.org, all of which have records of left-wing partisanship — particularly throughout the 2016 election. 

    For example, PolitiFact infamously said it was “mostly false” when Donald Trump claimed in a presidential debate that Hillary Clinton wanted “open borders.” PolitiFact made this ruling despite Clinton being on the record at a paid speech saying “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”

    Trump also said that Russia has 1,800 nuclear warheads and has expanded its arsenal while the U.S. has not. PolitiFact admitted that Trump’s claim was factual, but it rated the statement as “half true” for supposedly “missing the big picture.”

    In both of these cases, PolitiFact went beyond mere fact-checking and moved the goal posts in ways that benefited Clinton’s candidacy. This type of ideological “fact checking” went beyond parody during October’s presidential debates, with NBC taking Trump’s statement that Clinton “acid washed” her emails (a reference to the data deletion tool “BleachBit”) 100% literally and declaring the statement “false.”

    FACT CHECK IT YOURSELF!

    FAKE NEWS ‘propaganda’ campaign doesn’t end with facebook. The House recently passed a bill regarding propaganda.

    This article originally appeared at: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/15/facebook-introduce-warning-labels-stories-deemed-fake-news/.
  • A Review of Last Legislative Session

    A Review of Last Legislative Session

    HEALTH FREEDOM IDAHO tracked the votes of our legislators in relations to FIVE bills in the 2015/2016 session.
    Here is a brief description of the bill as it relates to health freedom, parental authority and privacy.
    To see how YOUR senator and representative voted find your district. 
    Download the voters guide (PDF FILE) that provides a complete overview of Idaho’s legislator votes.

    THE BILLS Health Freedom Idaho Tracked Last Legislative Session:

    HO181 – FAILED
    Topic: NATUROPATHIC MEDICAL PHYSICIANS
    Adds to existing law to provide the Naturopathic Medical Physicians Licensing Act. This law would only allow Naturopaths from a few specific Naturopathic Schools to be licensed as Naturopaths. This number accounts for approximately 20% Naturopathss in Idaho, leaving the other 80% who would then need to warn their clients with a signed statement stating that they are not Naturopaths or leaving them to face misdemeanor charges. This would exclude people that have gained their Naturopathic training elsewhere such as Germany, the birthplace of Naturopathy. Causing Idaho to lose a lot of rich traditions of Naturopathy.

    SB1121 –  PASSED
    TOPIC: ELIMINATES PRIVACY; REMOVES CONSENT IN SHARING OF HEALTHCARE DATA.
    This law poses a threat to our privacy and rights.  Introduced and passed in 2015, allows Immunization Registry sharing of information with the Idaho Health Data Exchange without consent.  Opt-out options do not address concerns about previously shared data released to third parties.

     
    SB 1294 – PASSED
    TOPIC: VACCINE ADMINISTRATION BY PHARMACISTS: REDUCES LEGAL AGE OF VACCINE ADMINISTRATION TO 6.
    This bill allows pharmacists to prescribe and administer vaccines for person 6 years or older.  Like all pharmaceutical products, Vaccines may cause reaction in some individuals.  Pharmacists do not know patient’s medical history, do not have access to their records, may never see a patient again so are unaware of reactions.  Pharmacists have no liability for adverse reactions in the vaccines they administer.

     
    SB 1231 – held over
    TOPIC: RELATES TO CHIROPRACTORS: AMENDS EXISTING LAW & ELIMINATES OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE ADVANCED NUTRITION TO PATIENTS.
    Amends existing law to revise restrictions on prescribing, dispensing, independently administering, distributing, directing or suggesting to patients certain drugs, substances or products.  Prevents chiropractors from administering IV supplements and providing advanced nutrition to their patients.

     
    HB 113 – PASSED
    TOPIC: PARENTAL RIGHTS: FURTHER DEFINED AND PROTECTED.
    This Bill was introduced and passed into law. It adds to existing law to provide the parental right to direct the care, custody and control of children; to provide the parental right to direct the education of children; to restrict interference with fundamental parental rights and to provide that this act shall not invalidate the Child Protective Act, to authorize a claim, defense and appropriate relief and to provide for attorney’s fees. The original form of this bill was positive for parental rights, however, it passed with amendments that were of concern to parental rights advocacy groups.   

    Become an educated voter-  SIMPLY.

    1.  Do you know your district? Do you know your legislators?
    Easily Check:  http://openstates.org/id/legislators/

    2. learn about their voting, their sponsers, their promises/commitments:
    Health Freedom’s Voter’s Guide
    VOTESMART.org
    IdahoFreedom.org
    Republican Liberty Caucus  
    Ballotpedia.org