Looks very good. I made some minor tweaks:

As a longtime member of the professional acupuncture community, and as president of the American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, I wish to register my opposition to 

First, I believe it will ultimately have a detrimental effect on public health and safety. Professional acupuncturists are thoroughly trained in clean needling techniques and protocols that guard against blood-borne pathogens. Furthermore, they are required to complete a lengthy internship, performing acupuncture treatment under the close supervision of an experienced practitioner. Physical therapists simply do not receive the necessary training in this field that is essential to ensure the safety of patients.

Second, allowing this practice will severely impact the effectiveness of the care patients receive. Physical therapists insert acupuncture needles into painful spots on a patient’s body -- period. Professional acupuncturists learn hundreds of recognized acupuncture points and their underlying body structures. There is simply no comparison between the fifty hours of training a physical therapist would receive in needle insertion and the thousands of hours required to truly internalize and manifest the theory and practice of acupuncture.

Finally, allowing physical therapists to perform these procedures will contribute to a fundamental misunderstanding of acupuncture by the general public. Without the reassurance of a rigorous training and licensing structure, and also as a result of inevitably receiving less effective care, patients may incorrectly reject acupuncture itself as a viable treatment option for them. Putting dry needling by physical therapists on the same footing with the health care services performed by licensed acupuncturists will only serve to confuse the public about the real nature and therapeutic effects of acupuncture.

Some may see this as a turf war between acupuncturists and physical therapists. I have nothing against physical therapists. And it is in fact a tribute to the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy that they are trying to appropriate it. My objection is that they are appropriating acupuncture at a very superficial level: it both undercuts and trivializes the power and total therapeutic value of a comprehensive, complex