Archive for Twila Brase
A Model for Medical Tyranny
In the wake of September 11, every state has been asked to enact a law providing for unprecedented, comprehensive health surveillance and medical martial law. The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), would provide a state’s governor with sole discretion to declare a public-health emergency. [...]
1Aug2002 | Twila Brase | 0 comments | ContinuedBlame Congress for HMOs
Twila Brase, R.N., P.H.N., is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.cchc-mn.org). Only 27 years ago, congressional Republicans and Democrats agreed that American patients should gently but firmly be forced into managed care. That patients do not know this fact is evidenced by public outrage directed at health maintenance [...]
1Feb2001 | Twila Brase | 3 comments | ContinuedWHO’s Hidden Agenda
Twila Brase, R.N., is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minnesota (www.cchcmin.org). The World Health Organization (WHO) didn’t blink twice before shooting down the United States’ world-class health-care system. In a recently released report, “The World Health Report 2000—Health Systems: Improving Performance,” the WHO ranked the overall performance of the [...]
1Dec2000 | Twila Brase | 0 comments | Continued-
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