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The Obama Health care bill under Class II (Paragraph 1, Section B) specifically includes in it's lists of things that must be in registered in the NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY: ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable."
Then on page 1004 it describes what the term "data" means in paragraph 1, section B:
14 ‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to in
15formation respecting a device described in paragraph (1),
16 including claims data, patient survey data, standardized
17 analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of
18 data from disparate data environments, electronic health
19 records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the
20 Secretary"
Originally posted by Jessicamsa
Approved by the FDA, a class II implantable device is a "implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information." The purpose of a class II device is to collect data in medical patients such as "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."
Originally posted by Emerald The Paradigm
reply to post by MrXYZ
No it doesn't force you to get an implant, but when they REFUSE to give you jobs, money, or anything else, then you'll line up to get it.
Originally posted by devilishlyangelic23
reply to post by MrXYZ
thank you for explaining that for everyone. but for some reason i have a feeling that post may not get the attention it deserves
It states: “Except as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services.”
Originally posted by devilishlyangelic23
reply to post by MrXYZ
thank you for explaining that for everyone. but for some reason i have a feeling that post may not get the attention it deserves
‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to in14
formation respecting a covered device, including claims
15 data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that
16 allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate
17 data environments, electronic health records, and any
18 other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.
‘‘(B) In this subsection, the term ‘covered device’—
14 ‘‘(i) shall include each class III device; and
15 ‘‘(ii) may include, as the Secretary determines
16 appropriate and specifies in regulation, a class II de17
vice that is life-supporting or life-sustaining.
In October 2004, VeriChip's human-implantable RFID microchip was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical uses in the United States (as a Class II Medical Device). In fact, the implantable microchip is considered a "predicate device" within the FDA, meaning others entering the space in the future will be measured against this device.
Is the implantable microchip FDA-approved?
In October 2004, VeriChip's human-implantable RFID microchip was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical uses in the United States (as a Class II Medical Device). In fact, the implantable microchip is considered a "predicate device" within the FDA, meaning others entering the space in the future will be measured against this device.
Originally posted by gwydionblack
Just grand. They had it in the prior bills and they managed to slip it into this one as well.
I'm sure there will be some people that will try to deny this even though it is pretty clear, but to me - the verbiage is QUITE clear.
Quote from : Wikipedia : I.B.M. and the Holocaust
IBM has consistently refused calls by Jewish, Gypsy, survivor, and veterans groups to apologize for its involvement with the Nazi regime. I
BM has never contradicted any of the evidence or facts in the books or the many documentaries, nor has it disputed Black's allegations.
Instead, it has claimed it has no real information on the period.
IBM and the Holocaust has been featured in hundreds of news articles, magazine stories, TV shows and documentaries, virtually none with rebuttal from IBM.
The company has stated that Black's case "is long and heavily documented, and yet he does not demonstrate that I.B.M. bears some unique or decisive responsibility for the evil that was done."
Additional information was published in the subsequent Edwin Black book Nazi Nexus.
IBM claimed it does not have much information about this period or the operations of Dehomag, and most documents were destroyed or lost during the war.
IBM also claimed a (dismissed) lawsuit was filed to coincide with the book launch.
In 2002, IBM dismissed Edwin Black's claim that IBM is withholding materials regarding this era in its archives.
Nevertheless, IBM had turned over its corporate records of the period several years ago to academic archives in New York and Stuttgart, Germany, for review by independent scholars.
Amazon Review :
Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution?
That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust, the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth.
"IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black. "IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg."
The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project.
The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data.
Black says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort.
Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians?
Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.
The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York know about IBM Germany's work, and when?
Black documents a scary game of brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler.
He shamefully delayed returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany.
(Hitler was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated in How Hitler Could Have Won World War II.)