Kentucky 45th in the
Nation for Healthcare

Source The Commonwealth Fund

Twila Brase, RN, PHN - Resume

Twila Brase is president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), a free-market, patient-centered health care policy organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

In 2009, the Modern Healthcare magazine named her as one of “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.” In 2000, the Minnesota Physician magazine selected her as one of “Minnesota’s 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders.” Her organization’s efforts have led to the 2006 expiration of government-issued medical treatment directives, the governor’s 2008 veto of a “Baby DNA Warehouse” bill, informed consent requirements for access to certain medical data, the 2007 and 2008 defeat of the proposed Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange, the the 2009 defeat of legislation to repeal genetic privacy and informed consent rights over government storage and research on newborn DNA, and a parent lawsuit against the state health department’s illegal storage, use, and dissemination of newborn DNA.

Ms. Brase provides testimony to the Minnesota state legislature, speaks around the country, including Congressional staff briefings, meets with members of Congress. She testified by invitation before a New Mexico legislative committee, given a speech for the Washington Policy Center (Seattle) and provided a presentation on “evidence-based medicine” for Kentucky and Ohio physicians. She also testified in Chicago before a federal committee against the proposed national patient identification number. Her article “Blame Congress for HMOs” has been placed into the Congressional Record of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is regularly invited to participate with other health care experts from around the country in a 2-day health care summit hosted by The Cato Institute.

Ms. Brase’s media interviews include various Minnesota and national television and radio stations including Glenn Beck Program on Fox News Channel, NBC Nightly News, NPR, CNN, Minnesota Public Radio, WCCO-TV (MN), KARE-TV (MN), New York Public Radio and the NBC TODAY SHOW. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Washington Post, WORLDNETDAILY, Modern Healthcare, TIME, Medical Economics and The Washington Times, to name a few. She is author of several reports including:

• “Newborn Genetic Screening: The New Eugenics?” – April 2009
• “Evidence-Based Medicine” – Rationing Care, Hurting Patients – published by the American Legislative Exchange Council, December 2008
• “The Untold PKU Testing Story…and Why it Challenges Government-Mandated Newborn (Genetic) Screening” – September 2008
• “How Technocrats are Taking Over the Practice of Medicine” – January 2005

Ms. Brase holds a Bachelor degree in Nursing from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, specialized in emergency room nursing, and is a certified public health nurse.