EPC TOPIC: Winning the Individual Health Decision War
TWILA BRASE is an RN, PHN (Public Health Nurse) and president and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCH Freedom), a patient-centered national organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota.
CCH Freedom initiated an “Obamacare Games” billboard campaign that went viral in March 2014, and its efforts have helped 34 states refuse Obamacare exchanges, stopped government-issued treatment directives, added consent requirements for access to patient data, drawn national awareness to nationwide genetic privacy violations regarding newborn DNA, led to lawsuits in Indiana, Minnesota and Texas against illegal state storage, use, and dissemination of baby DNA for genetic research without parent consent, and led to a federal parent consent law for research using newborn DNA.