I’ve seen where people believe this is some sort of plot to implant devices into our bodies. While I don’t think it goes that far, it is a bit Orwellian, nonetheless. The part of the health care bill I’m referring to is page 1013 to 1020. There’s some pretty creepy language. A few examples:
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; and
‘‘(B) is—
‘‘(i) a class III device; or
‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable,
life-supporting, or life-sustaining.
‘‘(2) In developing the registry, the Secretary shall,
in consultation with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs,
the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and the Sec-retary of Veterans Affairs, determine the best methods
for …
Does that sound a tad bit creepy to you? Yeah, me, too. But then there’s this on page 1015.
‘‘(iii) other postmarket device surveillance
activities of the Secretary authorized by this
chapter;
What’s up with that? Device surveillance? But it gets creepier still. (Page 1018)
‘‘(D) shall establish requirements for regular
and timely reports to the Secretary, which shall be
included in the registry, concerning adverse event
trends, adverse event patterns, incidence and preva-
lence of adverse events, and other information the
Secretary determines appropriate, which may include
data on comparative safety and outcomes trends;
and …
That’s all I can take. If you have some time on your hands, feel free to pour through the bill. Let me know what else you find. I don’t know, the lefties out there scream about “privacy” but why don’t they have a problem with this? Sounds like a big invasion of privacy to me. Does the federal government need a HIPAA release to garner this information? Or, once they nationalize health care are our medical records there at their beck and call?
Reconciliation HR 4872 Full Text
I agree. The creep-factor has exploded with this one. The manufacturers have to keep a registry of their devices planted into patients for warranty, etc. and to protect the hospital. We do not need the government knowing our replacement parts.
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We have had registries for medical devices for 20+ years. Not to say the Progressives wont use it for bad, but as a medical professional who put in medical devices like implants for hips and such, it is a positive tool.
I am against this bill btw, but this is not something that needs a focus.
We’ve had to use those registries to track implants that came from a bad lot or that were being reported to be causing infections or the material it was made of was failing etc. Some implants were not sterilized properly and you have to find all of them that were in that batch to keep ppl from dying. Some implants can be recalled (like cars) and without a registry, you would never find those ppl.
I am all for fighting this bill tooth and nail, but this provision is not what will do it.
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I don’t mind registries in the hands of medical professionals. I just don’t trust the government and don’t see the need for a government registry. Why not leave it to the health professionals who know what they’re doing?
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I think that this is what will open the door for chip implantation. This does everything but make it mandatory. More Creepy language: Not later than 36 months after the date of the
22 enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall promul23
gate regulations for establishment and operation of the
24 registry under paragraph (1)
Not sure what that means but it sounds like this registry (which people have said on other sites exists already) will be firmly established.
More bs: ‘‘(ii) in the case of devices that are described in
9 paragraph (1) and sold before such date, may re10
quire manufacturers of such devices to submit such
11 information to the registry, if deemed necessary by
12 the Secretary to protect the public health;
13 ‘‘(B) shall establish procedures—
14 ‘‘(i) to permit linkage of information sub15
mitted pursuant to subparagraph (A) with pa16
tient safety and outcomes data obtained under
17 paragraph (3); and
18 ‘‘(ii) to permit analyses of linked data;
So what is there to analyze again? What?
Even more jargon:(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Secretary of
16 Health and Human Services shall establish and
17 begin implementation of the registry under section
18 519(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
19 Act, as added by paragraph (1), by not later than
20 the date that is 36 months after the date of the en21
actment of this Act, without regard to whether or
22 not final regulations to establish and operate the
23 registry have been promulgated by such date.
Translation ready or not this will be established in 36 months.
Yeah. Why isn’t CNN covering this? I mean really WHAT is this?
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Former liberal – glad to see you’ve seen the light. But now that you have, questioning the motives of our Dear Leaders will leave you labeled as some sort of paranoid nut job. Don’t you know, creepy is the new cool?
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What I find disturbing is pg 999 #9-24 through pg 1000 #1-6.
A “School Based Health Clinic.” It’s bad enough that the minds of children are controlled by government schools, now they want to gain control of their bodies. This will enable them to be able to innoclate them with anything they please without a parent’s consent and who’s to say drug them out of their minds. Ritalin, etc.
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People, don’t be paranoid: This is merely a registry for tracking defective medical devices, such as implanted pacemakers.
It does not call for implanting anyone with anything; merely keeping track of recalls and other problems with medical devices already implated in patients.
See this article about the proposed registry at CBSNews.com:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/05/ap/health/main5364655.shtml
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I carefully read the section referring to a “National Registry Device” beginning on page 113 of the current Health Care Bill.
I could not find any reference to an implanted chip device. However, it seemed to be referring to the registration of all implanted devices in humans. For instance, if a patient has an artificial hip replacement or knee replacement the bill would require the device data to be entered into a national data base in order to track the device and monitor outcome and so forth. As a medical doctor I have no problem with that.
However, an “implantable chip” is an entirely different story. But I could not find anything about such a “chip” per se in the health care bill. True, these chips are available now, but, at this time I couldn’t find anything in the bill that said the government was going to require an “implantable chip.” If these devices begin to be implimented on a mandatory basis they will, most assuredly, fall under this section of the new health care bill.
If anyone knows where that mandatory chipping is so stated please inform me. I would like to check out the information thoroughly. Such a measure would have the overwhelming potential of being Orwellian in the extreme. However, at this juncture it doesn’t seem to be required. However, I would not be surprised at anything the current administration might try to pull in the future, which could be right around the corner.
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Dear Lonely Conservative -
You are a paranoid moron.
Love,
Michelle
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Dear intelligent conservative -
You will be left behind.
Good luck,
Michael
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