Current and Future Foundation Initiatives

• Issue #1: Finish COVID-related litigation. Foundation lawyers currently represent hundreds of people in dozens of lawsuits in several states.

 Claims include wrongful termination, wrongful death in the hospital, expulsion from colleges and universities, business losses due to COVID policies, and more. Foundation lawyers also have several cases pending against the creators of SARS-CoV-2: EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, Ralph Barak and several others. We’ve already won several cases, but there are many more yet to go to trial or settlement discussions. 

What this means for the Foundation: Foundation lawyers have graciously worked for significantly less than market rate for several years. While they have asked for more money, they do need to know that we are committed to continuing to pay them until the cases are resolved. 

• Issue #2: Vaccine Mandates for admission to public and private school Efforts to change the recommended childhood vaccine schedule have largely stalled due to pushback from Big PHARMA, medical associations like the American Academy of Pediatrics, both federal and state legislators, and the media (which is bought and paid for by PHARMA advertising). HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices after he took office, but a federal judge ruled that the administration did not follow proper procedures and blocked the changes. At this time, no known effort has been made to re-assemble the Committee using proper procedures. 

Three states (New York, Maine, and California) have eliminated all religious and non-medical exemptions for vaccinations required for admission to school. And several more state legislatures are considering it. California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii have formed the West Coast Health Alliance with the intention of developing their own vaccine schedules and rules. As former speaker Tip O’Neill used to say, “All politics is local.” The states do have the right to do this. There will almost certainly be more activity like this in blue states.

What this means for the Foundation:

At this time there are no states in which there are enough Foundation members in any legislative district to take out a pro-vaccine representative, senator, or assemblyman. If we want bad laws to be repealed and better laws to replace them, we need to recruit between 10,000 and 20,000 people IN EACH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT who are committed to getting rid of bought-and-paid for pharmaceutical shills, and replacing them with people who will respect bodily autonomy and choice. 

Homeschooling may be the only viable alterative for protecting children in some areas until we increase membership and our power to influence policy. This almost always requires mentoring and support from experienced home school families for those who are just getting started. Where do parents connect with experienced families? During the COVID debacle they met them at Tribe meetings. INFORMED Chapters remain one of the best venues for finding help from trusted people. 

Failure to accept religious exemptions is a violation of Americans’ First Amendment Rights. We have already filed a lawsuit challenging the elimination of exemptions in the state of New York and should file many more there, in the other states in which exemptions have been eliminated and, in the future, in states that pass laws that eliminate exemptions.

• Issue #3:  Hospitals and medical centers are becoming increasingly dangerous places, particularly for people who are uninformed and unprepared. New consent forms in many areas require that patients sign away almost all of their rights, sometimes for an entire year, just to have a screening test. Even worse, patients who are brain-injured risk being killed in the hospital for purposes of organ harvesting. This is well-documented in the book Rights Come to Mind by Dr. Joseph Fins, and in news stories reported by even the mainstream media. Investigations by the federal government have identified dozens of cases. 

About 600,000 people are delivered to emergency rooms EVERY YEAR in the U.S. with a brain injury! 

What this means for the Foundation: 

ALL citizens should have an adult designated as power of attorney. It’s best if there is a second choice in case both the patient and the designee are both injured (for example if both spouses are injured in an accident). Both the primary and the backup require training both to understand their very important role and also to know what to do when choices need to be made, or when doctors announce that they are going to withdraw life support. 

The Foundation can provide training for members and for their power(s)-of-attorney. People without family nearby will need to recruit a trusted friend – or two – to be appointed power of attorney. Foundation members are good candidates for this role, and the place to find them is at regular Foundation meetings. 

Lawyers will be needed in all states in which we do not currently have a Foundation attorney since out-of-state lawyers cannot provide representation for issues like these. The more INFORMED Chapters we form and members we gather, the more likely we will find the attorneys we are looking for. Most of the lawyers on our current legal team were referred to us by members. 

• Issue #4: INFORMED™ consent. Every state has laws concerning what doctors and other health professionals need to tell patients before proceeding with tests or treatments. These laws require that patients be provided with details including risks and benefits, potential outcomes, alternatives to conventional approaches, and the benefits – or consequences – of doing nothing. These laws are violated tens of thousands of times every day, and the results are sometimes catastrophic. Wellness Forum Health has been in business for almost 30 years, and the most common statement heard from new members is “If I had known then what I know now, I never would have… (agreed to this test, taken this drug, had this procedure).” The result is often harm, sometimes irreparable.

This statement appears on the website of the American Medical Association:
“…physicians should:

Assess the patient’s ability to understand relevant medical information and the implications of treatment alternatives and to make an independent, voluntary decision.

Present relevant information accurately and sensitively, in keeping with the patient’s preferences for receiving medical information. The physician should include information about:

the diagnosis (when known);

the nature and purpose of recommended interventions;

the burdens, risks, and expected benefits of all options, including forgoing treatment.

Document the informed consent conversation and the patient’s (or surrogate’s) decision in the medical record in some manner. When the patient/surrogate has provided specific written consent, the consent form should be included in the record.”1

Think about your own interactions with the medical system. How often have you been thoroughly informed before consenting to tests or prescriptions of procedures? 

What this means for the Foundation: 

There are many reasons why doctors and other health professionals routinely violate these laws. These include poor training, outside influences on medical practice (drug and device makers, medical associations) and rules that govern care that include reimbursement guidelines and hospital policies. A very important and overlooked reason is that there have been few consequences for failure to inform.

The best way – and perhaps the only way - to remedy this is through the legal system; suing both practitioners and the institutions they work for when patients are harmed due to lack of real informed consent.

Litigation is how many other egregious issues have been changed. One very good example is Big Tobacco. Trial lawyers sued to recover funds spent to provide medical are to people who smoked. Eventually a “Master Settlement Agreement” forced tobacco companies to pat the state over $200 billion dollars and to change their business practices. They agreed to stop advertising on billboards; to stop marketing their products to children; and to fund anti-smoking campaigns. 

Foundation lawyers can use the same strategy to force both doctors and institutions to properly inform patients. There is no shortage of potential plaintiffs – thousands of Foundation and Wellness Forum members qualify right now. There is a shortage of funding – which is why we must gather and commit!!

• Issue #5: The medical system is collapsing and good healthcare - based on sound evidence and with respect for patient choice - is becoming increasingly more difficult to access. 

What this means for the Foundation:

The biggest obstacle to overcome for doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and others who want to leave organized medicine is the financial risk associated with independent practice. These include giving up a salary that currently supports a family; student loans paid by the current employer as long as the person remains employed; and how to find enough patients soon enough to meet economic needs. 

There are two ways in which Foundation Chapters can facilitate the transition of doctors and others to private practice:

#1 Gather enough people to support an independent practice BEFORE the health professional leaves his/her job.

#2 Make sure that many, if not most of these people are healthy enough to pay cash for everyday healthcare services. Costs associated with billing third-party payers for expensive care and waiting for reimbursement are almost impossible to cover in solo practices. 

Wellness Forum Health is currently working on this very important issue, and is prepared to invest considerable effort in not only organizing this effort, but also in creating a cost-sharing system when enough participants have committed. 

Concluding thoughts:

Many energetic and well-meaning individuals and groups have attempted to solve some of these problems. Yet they persist, even in “red states” like Ohio where the Foundation is headquartered. For example, one effort to promote a constitutional amendment protecting medical choice resulted in fewer than 50,000 signatures, while at least 450,000 are required. An effort to protect doctors from discipline and licensure revocation by the Ohio Medical Board for disagreeing with public health policy resulted in the legislature including a single line item in the budget to permit free medical speech. Ohio’s then governor vetoed it. There are no laws in Ohio that would prevent a COVID-type debacle from happening again, and the doctor who orchestrated the COVID lockdowns is now a gubernatorial candidate. 

These types of problems will be not be resolved without significant and disciplined work – different from efforts from the past that our elected officials have come to expect and which they have successfully ignored for a very long time.

1. https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/informed-consent