Wisconsin Grassroots Legislation

SUPPORT - Wisconsin Consumer Choice and Wellness Act, S.B. 280, needs your immediate help to contact your Senator and Representative, the Committee members and encourage them to hear the bill. S. B. 280 protects consumer access to complementary and alternative health care options and was referred to the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Health. Now we need to let our voices be heard to pass this great health freedom bill!

What the Bill Does: S.B. 280 protects consumer access to complementary and alternative health care practitioners including herbalists, naturopaths, nutritional consultants, homeopaths, and many other natural health and complementary health practitioners. It protects the right of practitioners to provide complementary and alternative health care services and returns freedom of speech and choice of wellness lifestyle to the individual. Click here to see the language of  SB 280 Wisconsin Consumer Choice bill.

What you can do: Contact legislators and let them know you support S.B. 280! (See how to do that below.) WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER! A concerted effort will get this accomplished.

Contacting Legislators

1 Phone Call = 300 who feel the same way....very important

1. Distribute Attached One Page Call to Action: Please forward this email to your customers, friends, and family to sign the one-page letter (available by clicking here for download) and send by fax to all the members of the committee listed below and to your own legislator. If you don’t know your personal legislators’ names, you can locate them by going to http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx and entering your address and click on ‘search’ to find a legislator. Those without Internet access can call The Legislative Hotline: In Madison: 266-9960 or Toll-free: 1-800-362-9472 and they will connect you to your Senator and Assembly member.

Telephone calls, emails or faxes are extremely important at this time.

2. Contact Wisconsin Senate Committee on Health Members. Call the phone numbers listed below for the Health Committee to leave a message with each member of the Senate Committee on Health or e-mail or fax the attached form letter to the committee. Call, Monday through Fridays, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The message: “I support S.B. 280 – it protects my access to natural health care practitioners and they are very important to my health care choice options.

Give us feedback after the call. This will help us to know where we stand with each legislator. After you speak with your legislator, please let us know how your conversation went, and if they are willing to make a commitment to the bill. Please e-mail WIHFC at synchaa@gmail.com with this information.

3. Contacting Individual Legislators - phones call are extremely important....you can leave a message after hours.

If you write or e-mail, begin your communication with Dear Senator (or Representative) ____________; Include bill number for example: RE: Support S.B. 280.

Please take the time to write a personal note on your letter as this will have a greater impact with the legislators. Tell them about your rights as a consumer in Wisconsin to a free and educated choice in health care providers. Also tell them that you depend on alternative and complementary care for you and your family.

Build a relationship with your personal Representative and Senator. Make an appointment, call them, write them and email them, and start building a strong relationship with them. Request materials from Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition if you want to use leave-behind information that can help you when speaking with legislators regarding our bill. To download information about Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition please go to our website http://wihfc.com or contact us at synchaa@gmail.com.

Come to a Future Hearing

Hearing on the Bill: S.B. 280 was introduced on November 4, 2011 and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health. We are hopeful that we can display enough support that S.B. 280 will get a hearing in the Senate during session.

When S.B. 280 gets a hearing we will need people to testify, as well as have a large crowd in attendance. If you want to testify, let us know so we can help you prepare your testimony. The number of people at the hearing will most definitely have an impact on the legislators and can affect how they will vote. This is why it is so important that you attend these hearings.

Keeping Updated

Please forward or send this to everyone you know who cares about Health Freedom. Check our website for more information and updates: http://wihfc.com/consumer_choice.html

Share your contact information to get future alerts: We need to be able to let you know when and where hearings and other meetings will be held. Please contact synchaa@gmail.com to be included on future updates.  

THANK YOU from the Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition leaders:

Syncha Maniscalco and Susan Klingeisen

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These are the Senators on the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Health:

Sen. Leah Vukmir; Room 131 South, State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI 53707-7882; Phone: (608) 266-2512; Fax: (608) 267-0367; Sen.Vukmir@legis.wisconsin.gov

Sen. Pam Galloway; Room 409 South, State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI 53707-7882; Phone: (608) 266-2502; Fax: (608) 267-9027; Sen.Galloway@legis.wisconsin.gov

Sen. Terry Moulton; Room 306 South, State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI 53707-7882; Phone: (608) 266-7511; Fax: (608) 282-3563; Sen.Moulton@legis.wisconsin.gov

Sen. Jon Erpenbach; Room 104 South, State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI, 57303-7882; Phone: (608) 266-6670 Or (888) 549-0027; Fax: (608) 266-2508; Sen.Erpenbach@legis.wisconsin.gov

Sen. Tim Carpenter; Room 310 South, State Capitol, P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI 53707-7882; Phone: (608) 266-8535 Or (800) 249-8173; Fax: (608) 282-3543; Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov

Click here to see a video of a November grassroots legislative breakfast with speakers