Colorado’s house passes a health freedom act
Colorado’s lower house has passed a Health Freedom Act that would allow alternative health practitioners to openly offer their services without risk of violating the state’s medical practice act.
The legislation now goes to the Senate and is believed to have a strong chance of passing before the Legislature adjourns in late May.
Interestingly, the legislation as originally introduced ran into strong opposition from the state’s non-licensed psychotherapists who managed to insert language into the bill to prohibit alternative health practitioners from registering as non-licensed counselors, or representing themselves as such.
Colorado’s psychotherapy/counseling registration act of 1987 was one of the nation’s pioneering “open-practice” acts.
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