NC bill threatens to criminalize alternative health care providers (insurance, felons)

[jovial]

NC bill threatens to criminalize naturopaths, homeopaths, herbalists, midwives, aromatherapists as felons

I hope this doesnt pass, as alternative health care businesses have a hard enough time as it is as insurance usually doesn't cover their services.

[Watchman57]

Thanks I'll add it to my news/info Group in Yahoo and forward it to others.

[Time2Travel]

From the article:

"Proponents of the bill say it fixes a loophole in the current law that classifies out-of-state practitioners who practice without a license as Class I felons, while in-state practitioners who practice without a license are only guilty of a Class I misdemeanor. But what the bill actually appears to do is make it even harder for alternative practitioners who literally cannot be licensed in NC because their work is not "approved," to practice at all. After all, who is going to be willing to provide alternative medical services for consenting patients when doing so makes them a felon?

Sounds to me like all you have to do is get a license and you're fine. I can't drive a car without a license. Why should some alternative medical practitioner be able to treat a patient without one? And if your work is not "approved" then lobby to get it approved rather than trying to skirt the law that is clearly designed to protect the masses.

[AZ_Desert]

It's set to be voted on today. Hopefully, it won't be passed.