Cancer Legislation, Medical Freedom Issues
In this video, Frank Cuny spends about 8 minutes speaking on "Cancer Legislation, Medical Freedom Issues" at the 42nd Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
Transcription
The issue of medical freedom has been an issue since the constitutional time period. Otherwise, the battle whether religion ought to be free. Or with medical treatment ought to be free. The right to practice medicine ought to be free. And the father of medicine wanted to put it into the Constitution, but it didn't get into the Constitution. And so the battle has been waged all the way since constitutional time to say, do you have free choice in selecting the type of treatment that you should have? How many people think they ought to have free choice in their medical treatment? Please raise your hand or. During the constitutional time when the Revolutionary War was in the process, one third of the people supported the Revolutionary War. Two thirds did not otherwise. One third were patriotic individuals who picked up their must do suits and went out to fight for the war for freedom. Two thirds of them did not. Many remain supportive of the British and many whom just said, I'm too busy with my farm to be involved. We have a big struggle going on now in the United States and California, as you possibly all know, that the only legal treatment for cancer in California is approved by the FDA, must be approved by the FDA, which means chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. And if if a physician or nature pathic doctor wants to treat cancer using the herbal extracts or use the alternative approaches, which are extremely successful, less expensive. He can be in violation of the law and be disciplined by the medical board. We've had a number of physicians have to leave California and go to Arizona, go to Nevada, go to Mexico to practice, because the California laws do not permit it. We have the most restrictive laws in the nation as far as medical freedom is concerned. And here we are on a Sunday talking about that. So I'd like to say the real question is, are we dealing with evil? Are we dealing with goodness? And I think the way to determine whether something is evil is by their actions. The pharmaceutical drug industry, particularly on the chemotherapy part, their issue is money. We have billions of dollars a year and a lot of those tax moneys that is being paid for chemotherapy in California, chemotherapy drugs and the drugs actually run from one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand dollars a year, the treatment. And we have numbers that people who go to bankrupt because they kill their insurance companies will not go that far to cover it. And the result is they put all their money out for