USA is so huge that it has many more layers of beurocracy, each of which iis extremely expensive to penetrate, and each of which has much higher money amounts spent against homeoapathy.
In my case as an example, there are plenty of laws that shoud be effective but none is working.
In princpke, one needs to start at local state level, then state appeal, then state supreme court then USA appeal court then USA supreme court. That is a lot more layers than is needed in a low population place like New Zealand and each layer is enormously more expensive to litigate/lobby/change rules, etc that the previous one.
The chiropractors in USA already went all the way to the supreme court and won on anti-trust grounds, proving that the AMA was runing a campaign against them to keep them out of their own profession - but the costs to go through all those layers are enormous. The sheer size and funding behind AMA and AVMA, has put barriers in place funded by drug and food companies that are hard to stop.
The Justice Dept made rules to put a stop to Fraud in the medcal business (started by Janet Reno) but it has been subverted by AVMA as a movement to criminalize alternative medicine instead. The campaign is illegal on anti-trust grounds alone, but it continues, and they have handed out a publiicaion they developed on "How to Prosecute Alternatve Health Practitoners" whch has been given to state malpractice boards to use. THEY in most states, only need a high schol education.
Anti-trust as the chiropractors used, was not efective till they got to the Supreme court.
The system is sick, and too big. A runaway BIG wheel is much harder to stop than a runaway little one:-)
So it is a matter of scale, not just priniciple, that has to be overcome.
There are Freedom fightiing groups. The Rosa Parks one-person stand can not work in the rules set that now exists. Things move slowly. Colorado state just passed a health freeom law there this year. Minnesota, Rhode Island, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico also have such a law, but each state law has to be separately lobbied by activists and hard won.
WA has lobbied to get one, and twice had it supported at one level, but the next step of sending it to committee failed to get it even looked at, through simple refusal to do so by the relevant politicians in 2007 and 2009.
WA alone has a legislative intent law on this; it says "The legislature believes that all individuals should be permitted to enter into a health profession unless there is an overwhelming need for the state to protect the interests of the public by restricting entry into the profession."
But that is not upheld. Instead the state is using "mediical practice without a license" to go after alternative practitoners under the licensed profession laws where they have jurisdiction.
So my point is that there ARE lobbies and freedom fighting groups in USA, and they are active, but they are swimmng upstream in a torrent of toxic waste, not in a little mountain stream.
While the freedom fighting is ongoing so is the AVMA and (I do not know the AMA details) concerted five-point plan to stamp out alternative health competition. That started in 1993 after ther own Journal of the American Medical Associaton reported that alternative health dollars exceeded conventional medicine income in 1990 - and that the highest cause of unnecessary death in USA - which used to be 3rd highest for doctors and hospitals - had just become the highest cause.......this led to the intense campaign against alternative health for its "competition".
So far, greed rules. We now have National health law that excludes alternatve health in most categories.
The minnows continue to swim upstream, with pegs on our noses
Namaste,
Irene
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