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Excerpts from Public Law 107-116 Signed by President Bush 1/10/02 https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/presbush.html

"The Committee recognizes that the current state of laboratory testing for Lyme disease is very poor. The situation has led many people to be misdiagnosed and delayed proper treatment."  

"The Committee is distressed in hearing of the widespread misuse of the current Lyme disease surveillance case definition. While the CDC does state that 'this surveillance case definition was developed for national reporting of Lyme disease: it is NOT appropriate for clinical diagnosis,' the definition is reportedly misused as a standard of care for healthcare reimbursement, product (test) development, medical licensing hearings, and other legal cases."

 Connecticut Attorney General Lyme Disease Investigation and IDSA Settlement   Press Release:  http://www.ct.gov/AG/cwp/view.asp?a=2795&q=414284

 http://www.rissenberg.com/images/Attorney_General__Attorney_General_s_  Investigation_Reveals_Flawed_Lyme_Disease_Guideline_Process,_IDSA_  Agrees_To_Reassess_Guidelines,_Install_Independent_Arbiter.pdf  (with a reference to Kaiser)  and  http://www.ct.gov/ag/lib/ag/health/idsaagreement.pdf  Mirrored here for historical purposes:  The IDSA Agreement with the Connecticutt Attorney General's Office - PDF Connecticut Attorney General Investigation and Settlement Highlights Connecticut Attorney General's Office Press Release

Attorney General's Investigation Reveals Flawed Lyme Disease Guideline Process, IDSA Agrees To Reassess Guidelines, Install Independent Arbiter May 1, 2008

"In fact, United Healthcare, Health Net, Blue Cross of California, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and other insurers have used the guidelines as justification to deny reimbursement for long-term antibiotic treatment."

Gonzaga Law Review;  Unprecedented Antitrust Investigation into Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines  http://gonzagalawreview.org/2011/01/31/unprecedented-antitrust-invest­i­ga­tion-into- the-lyme- disease-treatment-guidelines-development-process/  Possible Applicability of Antitrust Standard Setting Law to the Development   of Clinical Practice Guidelines By Richard Wolfram 1  Antitrust HealthCare Chronicle - PDF File Download Link   https://kaiserpapers.com/lyme/pdfs/lymeantitrust.pdf

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