An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Scrap The Crap
Do you ever feel like Alice, falling down the rabbit hole, into an alternate reality, where up is down, and wrong is right? Well, I’m sure that’s how most us feel these days. At least those of us old enough to remember a time when the government pretty much left us alone, and allowed us to make our own decisions. You know, like grown ups. 
The more I delve into this whole health care manure, the more I feel like Alice chatting with that hookah smoking caterpillar. There is no reality, and nothing makes any sense.
In the original HR 3200, there is a much overlooked, by all media types, section on implantable devices. Starting on page 1000, line 20: National Medical Device Registry.
Page 1001, lines 3-4: a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.
I see. That word “OR” might be small, but it is quite important here. So, someone came up with a device a while back, and now thinks it would be a good idea to implement that into our health care system, just for our benefit, right? I’m not going to get all Biblical here, with the “mark of the Beast” and all that, but putting that aside, who the hell says any person must have such a device embedded in their body?
Page 1002, lines 9-11: other postmarket device surveillance activities of the Secretary authorized by this
chapter;
Surveillance activities? (If I were truly a conspiracy nut, I’d wonder if they put those words intentionally on the lines 9 through 11. (9/11?) Ok, I’ll try to be serious here.)
Page 1003, lines 14-20: In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to information respecting a device described in paragraph (1), including claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.
And, what a wondrous can of worms is being opened, eh? Where did all this obsession with with governments and health care come into play?
Have you ever heard of the Alma-Ata Declaration? Well, neither had I, until I started doing some snooping. September 1978, in the good ol’ USSR (that’s COMMUNIST Russia for those of you who aren’t old enough to remember), a bunch of folks got together and chatted about the world’s health care. What did they come up with? Well, a ‘declaration’ of course. Right out of the box:
I The Conference strongly reaffirms that health, which is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental human right and that the attainment of the highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and economic sectors in addition to the health sector.
When did someone decide that health care was a ‘right’? I’m sorry, no, it is not a right. Should we take care of our health? Obviously. Should we expect someone else to foot the bill for us? Oh, HELL no! And just what the blazes is “social wellbeing” suppose to mean? Is that like “social justice”, buzz words of the liberals>progressives>socialists>communists? Well gracious sakes, the WHO (World Health Organization) was involved, which, of course, is a “specialized” UN (Useless Numnuts) organization.
So, what happened to HR 3200? Well, along comes HR 3962, passed by the House, 11/7/09, 220-215. What’s the difference? I mean other than the THOUSAND or so extra pages, and increases in taxes, etc.? Well, not a whole lot, as best I can tell. Right there on page 1518, line 4, there it is again: NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY. Uh huh….looking…Cosmetic Act (?)…yada yada…. Ah HA! Same page!
Lines 14-17: The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as
the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each covered device.
Yada yada…violation…..bs bs bs….invasion of privacy….bs bs… yada….. Ah yes, there it is.
Page 1521, lines 18-23: In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to information respecting a covered device, including claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.
Now, who is that deems what is appropriate for “the Secretary” to see, when it comes to MY health care? Some nameless, faceless government bureaucratic flunky?
So, now they are coming up with a bill no one has seen, again, and won’t till it gets passed, and signed into law? Seriously? There’s NO health care in either of these bills that came out of the House. None in the Senate’s version either. All this mass hysteria of “it’s a crisis and must be addressed RIGHT NOW” is nothing more than one HUGE tax and spend bill after another, with the required falling off the cliff into total control of the “masses”.
From Queen Nanny’s own lips:
“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.”
The woman is thrilled to have the opportunity to tell YOU how to live your life. Oh yeah, and then there’s that other little tidbit:
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
Sorry Madam Speaker, but the only fog that I’ve been able to ascertain, is coming out of Washington, D.C. WE, THE PEOPLE have been REAL clear.
And believe it or not, there has been a purpose for all my blatherings here.
TN HB 2059! Introduced by Rep. Susan Lynn (R-57)! And TN SB 0153! Introduced by Sen. Bill Ketron (R-13).
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to electronic tracking of human beings.
Sometimes, elected officials can anticipate a few things. 
The problem I see with these bills? Violation is only a Class A misdemeanor, subject only to a fine, $2500 max. As far as I’m concerned, that is just not sufficient!
I believe more and more after the Republican failure on Healthcare goes through. The only case of action that we have is to nullify this law through our state legislature’s. We can get our states to agree for example not to make it a criminal offense to not carry this plan. Why should we put more people in jail when they did not really commit a crime? There are many reasons to attack this bill. It is a collection of good ole’ boy paybacks just like the stimulus bill.
Start writing your state representatives now. Get them involved in standing up against this crap. There are things that could be done in smaller chunks like allowing the market to be open on health insurance. I am sure that there are other factors that can help drive costs lower. But let’s not send a person to jail under this Peelousy bill!