Nancy Louth

As a retired public school teacher, I urge you to support HB360 to continue to limit school-based health clinics so they cannot prescribe, diagnose or perform even minor procedures in those locations. This will help keep lines of communication open and transparent between the school and parents, who are the rightful primary care providers for their children. Pharmaceutical corporations want to entice public entities like schools with these "free" clinics (and didn't Will Rogers warn, "There's no such thing as a free lunch"...?) but they carry the potential to become subtle lobbyists to unsuspecting youth when medical care decisions should be in the hands of physicians in partnership with parents as stakeholders to protect and care for children. Thank you for your consideration.