Posted on 02/11/2009 8:22:56 PM PST by Claud
That's how I read this anyway....anyone care to verify? If the link above doesn't work, go to Thomas:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1:
and look at Version 7 of H.R. 1....section 9201 has been struck out. Hopefully never to rise again.
Mods, apologies if the link is screwed up...Thomas has a strange interface and links seem to expire.
just the title was struck out?
No the whole section apparently.
Let’s see if this link is any better (stupid cgi):
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1.PP:
Scroll down to sec. 9201.
I would hope changing the title wouldn’t fool anyone
Grr...ok. Go to the main page:
Click on HR 1 at the top of the page in red. Then click on “Text of Legislation”, then version 7, at which point scroll down to 9201 and then click on that to see all the language that was struck out.
Whew!
Is so, THANK YOU Ms. McCaughey! She was tireless in sounding the alarm on this. I think she hit every talk radio show in America.
...or as our local radio host called it FCCCER. (say it in your head)
(Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research)
LOL....that’s good!
I’m skimming through the rest of this bill and there’s a huge new section on health care (I shoulda guessed)....hopefully Ms. McCaughey will be all over this new section as well. I can’t make sense of it...I’m just a lowly editor and it’s way past my bedtime. :)
Maybe they will just keep moving it around, figuring Betsy needs to sleep SOMETIME!
It works quite well, actually, which is why they do it so often. Just call anything "The Fairness In blah, blah, blah" and it's a sure winner among the sheeple.
Moving it around Hmmm... Sure looks like they added a few $$s. I thought the original amount of funding was around $1.2 billion. Now it is showing $3 billion. They are just trying to get a little stealthy. They also have added what appears to be privacy protection. Now that is a hoot! WOW a $100 dollar fine for each incident not to surpass $25,000 for a single year. So lets see, Big Pharma or Big Insurance pays a donates a million bucks to some hospital they release information on a couple thousand people said entity pays no more than a $25k fine and no one gets prosecuted. Sound like a plan to me. Plus if you want to challenge on the records being released the entity can charge you for labor related expenditures. Nurse initials $25, super nurses initials $50, Docs initials $200, Administrative fees $500 and legal $500. Hell at $20 an aspirin this could be in the ballpark. Then again my estimates could be way to low.
I can’t translate Bafflegab, Gobbledegook, or Bureacratese, but I’d bet anything that the FEDERAL POWER TO MURDER is still in there—just with the most intelligible scary language struck out.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1eas.txt.pdf
H.R.1
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Engrossed Amendment as Agreed to by Senate)
You are correct the entire 9XXX sections were struck from the bill as passed by the Senate.
The version passed by the House DOES have the 9XXX sections in it. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc111/h1_eh.xml <—takes a long time to load.
You know, on top of everything else I am more comfortable with Republicans in office because if a Republican tries something even a little questionable the media are all over it.
Imagine the coverage if Bush had done something even remotely like this. Remember how hos Social Security plans were skewered?
Just call anything “The Fairness In blah, blah, blah”
the Fair Tax
I think this is the compromise version...but I’m not sure.
Hm. Good find....the plot thickens!
Specter said he absolutely would not vote for this bill if it had anything changing our medical care in it. A couple of dems said the same thing.
Get the word out!
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