CTI is a trade lobby, like CMMR. Both groups are funded by the industry. To the extent that these groups are trying to protect consumers, they should be applauded, but all industry groups are ultimately self-serving, as they should be. However, the question of patient protection can't be reduced simply to pro and con 1284. Big parts of 1284 do protect patients: health inspection, prohibitions on felons, explicit medical privacy rules, scale certifications etc. Other parts of the bill, and the rules that followed, seem unreasonably onerous to business owners and without clear benefits to the consumers or the community. A few things in there are positively sinister. The goal of the ongoing debate (as I see it) is to find out which rules work, which rules don't, which provisions turned out to be unnecessary and which ones have unintended consequences on the industry, patients and the state. Even though I don't agree with Chippi's zero-regulation stance, I'm glad she's part of the process.