It is simple, Legislators need to hear from their individual constituents in sufficient numbers whom they represent to guide their efforts and strengths to accomplish those constituents desired goals. It’s up to you, the constituent ! “We The People“

Please feel free to utilize the below sample letters to Members of the Joint Committee on Public Health and/or your district legislator in email or written letter, simply copy and paste, personilize appropiately, into the desired communication format, or utilize as a foundation for a telephone conversation to them in support of Complementary and Alternative Health bill language.

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Sample Letter For Complementary and Alternative Health Care Consumers

Members of the Joint Committee on Public Health.

Thank you for providing an avenue for me to submit written testimony to your committee.

I would like to ask that you please add Representative Ferraro’s Complementary and Alternative Health bill language onto HB550. I would like you to support my access to complementary and alternative health practitioners because it provides me with a much-desired service in my health care choices. There are many non-invasive gentle healing practices used by thousands of Connecticut consumers, such as aroma therapy, healing touch, reflexology, and Reiki. I use these modalities for my health. These are helpful vocations that so many people like myself use.

With this bill, complementary and alternative practitioners will have clear guardrails as to activities prohibited by unlicensed complementary and alternative practitioners and what type of disclosures are required. If a complementary and alternative practitioner does not abide by the required parameters of the exemption, then current law will be in place, as always, to address the situation of unlicensed practice.

I ask you to support this bill because right now in Connecticut, unlike eleven other states, those who practice these methods and who are not conventional health care professionals can technically be considered in violation of health occupation laws for practice without a license even though they are not practicing a conventional health care profession. I would like it to be very clear in the law that these practitioners are protected and accessible to me if they avoid the required prohibited acts and give out their disclosures.

Please support Representative Ferraro’s solution. Eleven other states have passed protective legislation including Rhode Island and Maine. Massachusetts has a similar bill that has already been successfully heard in the Joint Public Health Committee.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Download (here) the above Sample Letter For Complementary and Alternative Health Care Consumers

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Sample Letter For Complementary and Alternative Health Care Service Providers

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Download (here) the above Sample Letter For Complementary and Alternative Health Care Service Providers

in PDF format. Print, modify accordingly and ground mail.

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Sample Letter For Complementary and Alternative Health Care Professional Referrers & Consumers

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Download (here) the above Sample Letter For Complementary and Alternative Health Care Professional Referrers & Consumers

in PDF format. Print, modify accordingly and ground mail.