| Comment Number: | 522418-00586 |
| Received: | 6/2/2006 8:04:39 PM |
| Organization: | Respectful Care, Inc. |
| Commenter: | Lynda Kelsey, RN, MS |
| State: | OK |
| Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
| Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
| CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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Comments:
I am writing in response the the proposed Business Opportunity Rule R511993. Having worked both sides of the fence - nursing (mainstream medicine) and now my home business as a Nature's Sunshine distirbutor, I can tell you easily where the most harm is done to the public and it is not from my home herbal business. In the name of "Protecting the Public," the government nose-dived into the HIPPA realm. HIPPA began innoncently enough, but after the government got involved, not only was the public not protected, they are less protected, because the public is so bombarded and used to paperwork they're to read, they read nothing. Some things actually should be read like consent forms, medcine side effects. Millions and Millions of dollars were spent on the HIPPA venture to have it be nothing but a moot point. If you want to protect the public, then each physician needs to hand the patient their: 1.% of patients who have died each year, the cause and what was done to prevent such 2. % of patients with bad outcomes (infections, botched surgeries, etc) 3. Every single time the physician has had a law suit against them 4. Last but not least, their earnings for every procedure they do (updated). No one is going to ask physicians to do this. And they wouldn't do this. The reason this rule is even proposed, if I were to guess, would be physicians. They now know that we are actually a threat to them. We are helping people. For years, they left us alone. No problem but let us make some money, then they come out of the woodwork. Lynda Kelsey, RN, MS