Health Care Bill Outrage of the Day

Did you know that the recently passed health care reform bill contains a mandate that establishes the framework to eventually require all Americans to have a microchip implant?


But hey, don't take my word for it.  Read it here in the bill:

Final Health Care bill text

You'll have to scroll down to around page 1000ish.  It's Title V, Section C.  Here's a synopsis:

(g)(1) 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 device that— ‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; ‘‘(B)and is— ‘‘(i) a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.”

(emphasis mine)

Now, just so you know, a Class II device, according to the FDA, is an implantable microchip.  Again, don't take my word for it, read it here:  FDA guidelines

"But," you say, "there's no requirement to actually GET a microchip, only a requirement to create a registry for them."  Right you are.

But, microchip implants are pretty rare, outside the odd pacemaker.  Why would Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid put a requirement for a national registry, complete with full compatability and information sharing, into the bill if they didn't see it becoming more widespread, and dare I say it, eventually required?

In response, I can only quote Sarah Palin.  "Don't retreat.  RELOAD!"

That's life, from my Constitutional position.

Usual Kid Stuff

Gotta add a few to my wife's list:

(I can't help it...violin, cello, guitar, drums, piano, Spanish, French, Latin...sign language...knitting, crocheting, baking, cross-stitch...volleyball, basketball, karate...riding, swimming, hunting...Academic Quadrathlon, Olympic Pentathlon...you know...the USUAL kid stuff :-) )

Rifle and pistol marksmanship, land navigation, movement techniques and formations, hand and arm signals, react to contact, demolitions, reporting basics, terrain analysis, troop leading procedures, the military decisionmaking process, and of course the Big Three: Raid, Recon, and Ambush (L-shaped and linear, antipersonnel and antiarmor)...you know, the USUAL kid stuff. :-)


And that's life, from my paternal parental position.