Support NC Licensing of Naturopathic Physicians
In the next 2 weeks, we need to make sure each person on the list below is contacted and encouraged to support HB1404 and SB1043. This bill allows ND’s trained at accredited universities and colleges to sit for licensure in NC and practice medicine as we were trained to do.
Here are some talking points you can include in your communications along with your own personal story explaining why you want us to be licensed….
A naturopathic doctor is an expert in natural medicine and is someone who has been trained and has received a degree in naturopathy from one of the six accredited naturopathic medical schools in North America.
Licensure of naturopathic doctors would allow consumers to distinguish practitioners who have been educated and trained in one of the six accredited naturopathic medical schools from individuals who may have completed correspondence courses or learned their skills through less formal pathways thus providing protection for patients who choose non-conventional medicine or wish to blend conventional and non-conventional health care.
Legislators need to provide a pathway to licensure for individuals who have been educated and trained in the field of naturopathic medicine and, thus, provide protection for patients who choose non-conventional medicine or wish to blend conventional and non-conventional health care
Sixteen states and provinces (Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) currently license naturopathic doctors, and efforts are underway in five other states to license and regulate the practice of naturopathic medicine.
The North Carolina Association of Naturopathic Physicians (NCANP) is a professional organization of clinically trained and formally educated doctors of naturopathic medicine. The organization currently has 30 members who are naturopathic physicians — each of whom has at least eight combined years of college and Naturopathic medical school and meet the national standards for licensure in the USA. Those national standards include completion of a professional Naturopathic Degree from a four-year residential Naturopathic Medical School accredited by the federally recognized accrediting body, the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education, and successful passage of two sets of the Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Exams.
NC residents make the most impact but if you live outside NC you can also have a say. Some have explained that they come to Asheville or western NC specifically for its alternative and complementary healthcare providers and then describe your experiences seeing an ND. If you haven’t seen an ND but would if we were licensed and/or able to take insurance or you could be reimbursed through your insurance include this in your communcations.
One email letter sent to 44 people or phone conversations averaging 1-2 minute each will make a huge difference. The list of people who need to hear from you are…
House Health:
Chairman Rep. Current: (919) 733-5809 E-mail: Bill.Current@ncleg.net
Chairman Rep. Dollar: 919-715-0795 E-mail: Nelson.Dollar@ncleg.net
Chairman Rep. Hollo: (919) 715-8351 E-mail: Mark.Hollo@ncleg.net
Vice Chairman Rep. Barnhart: (919) 715-2009 E-mail: Jeff.Barnhart@ncleg.net
Vice Chairman Rep. R. Brown: (919) 715-0873 E-mail: Rayne.Brown@ncleg.net
Vice Chairman Rep. Burr: 919-733-5908 E-mail: Justin.Burr@ncleg.net
Vice Chairman Rep. Earle: (919) 715-2530 E- mail: Beverly.Earle@ncleg.net
Members Rep. Blackwell, Rep. Brisson, Rep. Brubaker, Rep. Cotham, Rep. Crawford, Rep. Farmer-Butterfield, Rep. Howard, Rep. Hurley, Rep. Insko, Rep. Jackson, Rep. Lewis, Rep. Murry, Rep. Pierce, Rep. Randleman, Rep. Samuelson, Rep. Steen, Rep. Wainwright, Rep. Weiss, Rep. Wray
Senate Health:
Co-Chairman Sen. Stan Bingham (919) 733-5665 E-mail: Stan.Bingham@ncleg.net
Co-Chairman Sen. Harris Blake: (919) 733-4809 E-mail: Harris.Blake@ncleg.net
Co-Chairman Sen. Louis Pate: (919) 733-5621 E-mail: Louis.Pate@ncleg.net
Vice Chairman Sen. James Forrester: (919) 715-3050 E-mail: James.Forrester@ncleg.net
Members Sen. Austin M. Allran /E-mail: Austin.Allran@ncleg.net, Sen. Bob Atwater/E-mail: Bob.Atwater@ncleg.net, Sen. Doug Berger/ E-mail: Doug.Berger@ncleg.net, Sen. Debbie A. Clary/ E-mail: Debbie.Clary@ncleg.net, Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird/ E-mail: Ellie.Kinnaird@ncleg.net, Sen. Eric Mansfield/ E-mail: Eric.Mansfield@ncleg.net, Sen. Wesley Meredith/ E-mail: Wesley.Meredith@ncleg.net, Sen. William R. Purcell/ E-mail: William.Purcell@ncleg.net, Sen. Bill Rabon/ E-mail: Bill.Rabon@ncleg.net, Sen. Gladys A. Robinson/ E-mail: Gladys.Robinson@ncleg.net, Sen. David Rouzer/ E-mail: David.Rouzer@ncleg.net, Sen. Bob Rucho/E-mail: Bob.Rucho@ncleg.net, Sen. Tommy Tucker/ E-mail: Tommy.Tucker@ncleg.net, Sen. Jim Davis/ E-mail: Jim.Davis@ncleg.net
write congress: http://www.congress.org/signon/congressorg/mail/?id=33698&lvl=L&chamber=S&type=ST&MC_targets=
Contact information for members of the Senate Committee on Health Care and the House Committee on Health and Human Services is recorded below.
http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H847v0.pdf
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