Americans face rising chronic disease linked to everyday exposures from air, water, food, and consumer products. IHPC’s Environmental Health White Paper outlines the evidence and practical policy steps to protect families, focusing on arsenic, lead, bisphenols, and PFAS, plus the training clinicians need to respond.

Addressing chronic disease at its root by tackling toxic exposures in air, water, and food; strengthening prevention through interagency coordination; advancing clinician training in environmental medicine; and promoting policies that protect children, families, and communities nationwide

IHPC submitted official recommendations to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission to expand patient choice, strengthen prevention, and elevate evidence for whole-person care, representing over 650,000 licensed integrative health professionals

The submission responds to findings that over 40% of U.S. children live with a chronic condition, underscoring the need for structural reform

A concise roadmap for four priorities: Inclusion (apply Section 2706 principles across Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA), Research (upgrade NCCIH to a fully resourced systems-health institute), Prevention (environmental health action), and Legislative/Executive steps (PHRA + targeted executive actions)

Ending health insurance discrimination against licensed providers of healthcare services is one of the most important objectives of IHPC’s policy work.

IHPC principals were part of the collaborative team of specialists who supported the work of former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, who lead the creation of the non-discrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act that are set out in Section 2706. Building off of this federal statute, the CoverMyCare network of state-based advocates, practitioners, patients and policy experts continues to advocate and work for consumer access to all safe and effective licensed services.

Ideas and guidance for understanding the promise of Section 2706…talking with your practitioner and your MD about access to all the care options important to you…crowdsourcing tools to Share Your Story and Contribute Your State Information…and connect with others in your state: it is where the action is when it comes to encouraging your state’s health insurance commissioner to direct insurers to comply with Section 2706.

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