Health Freedom Washington is a non-profit grassroots lobbying organization dedicated to preserving the freedom of Washington citizens to access independent health practitioners of our own choosing and to protect practitioners from criminal prosecution by passing a Safe Harbor Exemption Law to cover these practitioners.
Our work is focused on adding an Exemption (in RCW 18.71.030, Exemptions) to the existing definition of practice of medicine statute, RCW 18.71.011. We call this a “safe harbor” exemption, to provide a safe status under the law for independent practitioners to conduct business while stipulating limits in the form of prohibited conduct and required disclosures.
This will allow all unlicensed and unregulated health practitioners who do not clearly harm or endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the public according to RCW 18.120.010(-Purpose – Criteria) to safely and freely provide valuable health care services to Washington citizens now and in the future. Six states have safe harbor exemption laws while 19 – including us – are currently in the process.
(Washington RCWs can be accessed at: www.leg.wa.gov/legislature under “Find Laws.)
Health Freedom Washington
BILL OF RIGHTS
As citizens of the state of Washington and of the United States of America we reiterate that we have the following rights having to do with our health, well-being, and survival:
To live in a healthy environment.
To have toxins kept out of our food.
To NOT have toxins and poisons placed in our bodies.
To be able to do a healing act without requiring governmental permission.
To use self-determination in making our health care choices.
To maintain our fundamental right of privacy in choosing any type of health care practitioners, healers, researchers, treatments, services, products, devices, substances and truthful information sources.
This is a matter of justice.
To have access to a maximum number of consumer options in health care.
To have recognized that full access is an inherent and fundamental right and is independent of the actions of any government or other regulatory public or private body.
To have access to any innovative and emerging modalities or therapeutic agent used by health care practitioners that may fall outside any perceived conventional standard of care determined by any government or other regulatory public or private body.
Health Freedom Washington: PO Box 6555, Olympia WA 98507
360.357.6263 • HYPERLINK "http://www.healthfreedomwa.org" www.healthfreedomwa.org • HYPERLINK "mailto:healthfreedom.wa@gmail.com" healthfreedom.wa@gmail.com