Showing posts with label FDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FDA. Show all posts

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Portion control — how the government plans to dictate what’s on your dinner table

 Fox News, January 3, 2014

Would you rather sip on unpasteurized milk or a cold glass of soda? Do you prefer Saturday lunch at a fast food joint or a farmers market?

Regardless of your choices, your food freedom — your right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods you want — is under attack. Here are ten food freedom issues to keep an eye on in 2014.

1: FDA May Ban or Restrict a Growing Number of Food Ingredients. The FDA has proposed banning oils containing trans fats, an ingredient found in foods like coffee creamers and muffins. If you think that’s an overstep, consider that the agency is also likely to propose unprecedented new restrictions on food ingredients like sodium and caffeine in 2014.


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

U.S. House of Representatives: the week ahead

May 29, 2012

The Senate is in recess this week.  The House returns for legislative business tomorrow, and will be voting on:

The Food and Drug Administration Reform Act (HR 5651) revises and extends the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and for medical devices, to establish user-fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars. Sponsor:  Rep. Frederick “Fred” Upton [R-MI6] and 5 bipartisan cosponsors.  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr5651

The Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act (HR 3310) consolidate the reporting obligations of the Federal Communications Commission in order to improve congressional oversight and reduce reporting burdens.  Sponsor:  Rep. Steve Scalise [R-LA1] with 9 Republican cosponsors.  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3310

The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) (HR 3541) prohibits discrimination against the unborn on the basis of sex or race.  Sponsor:  Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ2]  with 98 cosponsors (including 3 Democrats).  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3541

The Divisional Realignment Act (HR 5512) realigns divisions within two judicial districts.
Sponsor:  Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS2] with 4 cosponsors (3 of which are Republicans).  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr5512


The Servicemember Family Protection Act (HR 4201) provides for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces. Sponsor:  Rep. Michael Turner [R-OH3] with 72 cosponsors (6 of which are Democrats).  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr4201

The Secure Border Act (HR 1299) achieves operational control of and improve security at the international land borders of the US.  Sponsor:  Rep. Candice Miller [R-MI10] with 32 Republican cosponsors.  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr1299

HR 3670 requires the Transportation Security Administration to comply with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.  Sponsor:  Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN1] with 22 bipartisan cosponsors.  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3670

The WMD Intelligence and Information Sharing Act (HR 2764) establishes weapons of mass destruction intelligence and information sharing functions of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security and to require dissemination of information analyzed by the Department to entities with responsibilities relating to homeland security.  Sponsor:  Rep. Patrick Meehan [R-PA7] with 5 cosponsors including 3 Democrats.  (House vote Wed.) https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr2764

The Jaime Zapata Border Security Task Force Act (HR 915) establishes a Border Enforcement Security Task Force program to enhance border security by fostering coordinated efforts among Federal, State, and local border and law enforcement officials to protect US border cities and communities from trans-national crime.  Sponsor:  Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX28] with 2 Repbulican and 1 Democrat cosponsoring.  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr915

The Mass Transit Intelligence Prioritization Act (HR 3140) directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to prioritize the assignment of officers and analysts to certain State and urban area fusion centers to enhance the security of mass transit systems.  Sponsor:  Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA12] with 1 Republican cosponsor.  (House vote Wed.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3140

The Export Promotion Reform Act (HR 4041) further enhances the promotion of exports of United States goods and services. (House vote Wed.)
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr4041

The Intelligence Authorization Act (HR 5743) authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 2013 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government.  Sponsor:  Rep. Michael “Mike” Rogers [R-MI8] and no cosponsors.  (House vote Thurs.)  https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr5743

The Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (HR 5854).  Sponsor:  Rep. John Culberson [R-TX7] and no cosponsors.  (House vote Thurs.)
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr5854

The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (HR 5325)
Sponsor:  Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen [R-NJ11] and no cosponsors.  (House vote Thurs.) 


https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr5325

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Feds Revoke Approval of Life-Prolonging Treatment for Breast Cancer, Insurers Could Bail on Patients

A "chillingly blunt assertion of regulatory power against a drug for breast cancer."


For those unfamiliar, Avastin is a targeted therapy drug used in conjunction with chemotherapy in the treatment of certain advanced cancers — primarily colorectal, kidney, and lung, but also breast cancer. The drug works by restricting the blood supply to tumors. The goal is to starve tumors of the precious blood needed to grow, thus shrinking them. While the drug carries with it serious side effects, it has been proven successful in suppressing tumor growth in various types of cancers.


Now, however, the FDA is revoking its approval of Avastin in the treatment of advanced breast cancer only. This means that doctors can still prescribe the drug to breast cancer patients as they deem fit, but insurers now might not cover the exorbitant cost. A year’s supply of Avastin can cost roughly $100,000.

CONTINUED:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/feds-revoke-approval-of-life-prolonging-treatment-for-breast-cancer-insurers-could-bail-on-patients/





http://www.theblaze.com/stories/feds-revoke-approval-of-life-prolonging-treatment-for-breast-cancer-insurers-could-bail-on-patients/

Monday, October 31, 2011

Today In Washington

Monday, October 31, 2011


THE WHITE HOUSE: Obama is ordering the FDA to take new steps to prevent and reduce shortages of cancer medicines, anesthetics, emergency-room supplies and other drugs that have recently been in short supply. He’s signing an executive order to that effect within the hour, the latest move in his effort to advance his priorities without any input from Congress. But the president is going to endorse legislation requiring drug makers to notify the FDA six months ahead of a potential shortage.

Obama spent more than an hour in the Oval Office this morning with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who’s now leading a balky effort to broker Middle East peace.

THE SENATE: Convenes at 3 with no business beyond a 5:30 vote to confirm Stephen Higginson, who runs the appeals office for the U.S. attorney’s office in New Orleans and teaches full time at Loyola Law School, for a seat on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

THE HOUSE: Convenes at 1 for a brief pro forma session.

BIG DOGS BARKING: With 23 days to the next big deadline for a deficit deal, look for the top four Capitol Hill leaders to get much more overtly involved this week in the search for a deal that could get through Congress with bipartisan support — and narrow the next decade’s yawning budget gap by substantially more than the $1.2 trillion supercommittee minimum. That’s because the continuing partisan impasse over taxes has kept the all-powerful 12 from getting close at all to an agreement — despite about two dozen gatherings for private negotiating sessions, social dinners and public hearings.


With the lights on in both chambers for the first time in three weeks, Boehner and McConnell have the opportunity to do some coordinated temperature-taking about the willingness of rank-and-file Republicans to accept some measure of additional revenue (whether tied to expected economic growth or not) as the price of a deal that makes a big dent in the deficit, eases economic anxiety and restores at least some confidence in Washington. If they conclude that close to half of GOP House members and senators are willing to make that trade-off, a grand bargain may yet be achievable — and they will give Jeb Hensarling and Jon Kyl the green light to work out the details.

Similarly, Reid and Pelosi will be doing some gentle whip-cracking of their own — to make sure that not too many in their ranks are rebelling against the big concessions to party principles embodied in last week’s opening Democratic bid at the supercommitee: $500 billion in Medicaid and Medicare reductions and trims to discretionary spending beyond what’s already in store — assuming that those cuts are paired with a decent-sized tax increase. (The liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says the Democrats’ plan “actually stands well to the right of plans” offered by the Bowles-Simpson and Rivlin-Domenici commissions and is the best the GOP should be allowed to hope for in a negotiated settlement.)

The White House, meanwhile, shows less and less interest in the supercommittee process by the day. Officials there are concluding there’s so little chance for a deal that there’s no percentage in the president putting any of his dwindling political capital on the line — especially while he’s getting some mileage (and an uptick in his approval ratings) out of his “We can’t wait” campaign to show he can govern at the margins without any help from the do-little Congress.

As has been the case since the supercommitee was created in August, its best chance for overcoming the long odds for success lies in lawmakers’ concluding that the alternative would be worse: indiscriminate across-the-board cuts to domestic and defense programs that make Republicans and Democrats cringe with nearly equal anxiety.

A LITTLE GET-TOGETHER: The most tangible budget news of the week won’t be the Senate’s passage of only its second spending bill for the fiscal year that started a month ago. A solid bipartisan vote for that domestic spending “minibus”$128 billion for the Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and HUD departments as well as the FDA and the National Science Foundation — is on course for no later than Wednesday. But the real news will be that, after that, House and Senate appropriators plan on convening their first actual conference committee in two years — and that those lawmakers actually have been authorized by their leaders to come up with a genuine compromise agreement.


The big question for the negotiators is whether to turn what’s currently a three-spending-bill amalgam into a package including five or six bills. They will do so only if appropriators are confident they can push whatever bill they come up with through the House — where a coalition of conservative Republicans (who lament the bills would spend too much) and liberal Democrats (who lament the opposite) appear to have the combined muscle to stop any spending legislation for now.

SOURCE:  CQ Roll Call--Daily Briefing, http://www.cqrollcall.com/
— David Hawkings, editor

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Sen. Durbin’s Attack on Health Freedom--Senate Bill 1310

At a time when presidential candidates are being asked which federal agency needs to be cut out due to excessive spending, bureaucratic red-tape and regulations from here to Timbuktu, a bill was recently introduced by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) which aims to expand the Food & Drug Administration’s reach, further encroaching upon the dietary supplement industry with incessant regulations. Senate Bill 1310 has been referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions which, dare I say, should certainly have more important things to discuss right now then dietary supplements...

Although, according to a study funded by the Natural Products Foundation, the dietary supplement industry contributes more than $60 billion to our national economy which is nearly triple U.S. consumer sales. Perhaps this committee should be looking for ways to stimulate this economic driver, rather than looking into putting a stranglehold on the industry. Not only does the dietary supplement industry clearly have a market, they are also creating and supporting jobs in a myriad of industries in addition to their own such as manufacturing, retail sales & scientific, among others. There is obviously a large percentage of Americans exercising their right to health freedom and supporting the dietary supplement industry, Sen. Durbin should take heed with his attack.

You might be wondering, why the need for additional government intervention? I know I am. This bill will lead to restricted access to products that Americans are choosing to buy & raise the cost to the consumer for these products ultimately stifling competition within the industry. I can’t help but wonder, is Big Pharma behind this bill? Interestingly enough, the same day that SB 1310 was introduced, the FDA issued, “Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredie... which just so happens to contain the same elements outlined in Durbin’s bill.

Durbin’s bill would require additional labeling on dietary supplements that in the past have been labeled simply a food or a beverage. Surprise, surprise – this new labeling triggers massive regulations! The dietary supplement companies would have to go through a lengthy registration process for each of their products with the FDA which requires more money, time and resources. This is an issue that Sen. Durbin has brought up numerous times in the past and it appears to be an attempt to address his need for a clearer FDA definition of a “conventional food” – a long standing issue within the industry. The reason that this debate is important is that there are different safety regulations for “conventional food” and “dietary supplements” regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). Although DSHEA called for this definition when it passed in 1994, the bureaucrats at the FDA have failed to do their job and the debate over this definition has been raging for the past 17 years. Durbin’s bill puts the weight of what should be the FDA’s burden, squarely onto the shoulders of the dietary supplement manufacturers. The biggest kicker of all is that there are already numerous regulations and laws in place that are not being enforced which would address his stated concerns. There are also several practices which are industry standards put in place for the consumers’ safety like using product lot numbers.

If you think about it logically, it is in the industry’s best interest to produce a safe, effective product so that they can maintain a profit – this legislative attack will do nothing to make these products safer, it will only suffocate the ability of the smaller producers to maintain their place in the industry eventually stifling competition industry-wide. Even the Association of American Physicans and Surgeons is oppossed to this bill.

The president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), Steve Mister called the bill, “a misguided bill that doesn’t address the concerns raised by Sen. Durbin, but instead creates more bureaucracy for an already resource-challenged agency and more red tape and costs for industry while doing nothing to further protect consumers from his concerns. Instead of urging FDA to use its current enforcement authority to isolate and punish those companies that are not following the law, this bill serves to punish all responsible companies with its overreaching mandates.”

In addition to registering their product with the FDA, the companies that manufacture these supplements would also have to register their facility; a description of each dietary supplement product manufactured by that facility; a list of all the ingredients in each of those products; a copy of the label and labeling for each of those products. And then, if a product is reformulated or discontinued, the bill also mandates that this registration process start all over again & be done within 30 days of beginning manufacturing, reformulating or discontinuing a product. Adding to the red tape, SB 1310 would require that the FDA create a list of all possible adverse side effects to groups like pregnant women or children; engage with the Institute of Medicine to evaluate the ingredients and proprietary blends within 18 months and produce a report on its findings; the report would be followed up with a public comment period and 2 years later, the FDA would be required to publically identify what they feel to be dangerous to the public.


Under DSHEA, a dietary supplement is defined as: a vitamin, a mineral, an herb or botanical (excluding tobacco), an amino acid, a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, extract, or combination of any of the above. Additionally, it must also be intended for ingestion (pill, capsule, tablet, powder or liquid); not represented for use as a conventional food; and labeled as a dietary supplement.

What do all of Durbin’s proposed regulations boil down to? Essentially, a transparent attempt to have vitamins and dietary supplements treated like drugs which will not go over well with the over 150 million Americans who make the choice to purchase these products annually. I support health freedom. I support free markets. I support an individual’s right to choose to purchase whatever product they want and Sen. Durbin’s SB 1310 is a blatant attack on that right. If you agree, please join me in opposition to Senate Bill 1310.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Another hidden secret in Obamacare "RFID Chip Implants"

http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/forum/topics/another-hidden-secret-in

And now we come to it. On Sunday March 21, 2010 the Senate Healthcare bill HR3200 was passed and signed into law the following Tuesday. Like I said before, there are a legion of horrible and just plain evil aspects to this bill and I’m sure you’ve heard a lot them by now. I don’t want to discount them but what cannot be missed here is this new law now opens a prophetic door on a magnitude not seen since the reformation of Israel.


This new law requires an RFID chip implanted in all of us. This chip will not only contain your personal information with tracking capability but it will also be linked to your bank account. And get this, Page 1004 of the new law (dictating the timing of this chip), reads, and I quote: "Not later than 36 months after the date of the enactment". It is now the law of the land that by March 23rd 2013 we will all be required to have an RFID chip underneath our skin and this chip will be link to our bank accounts as well as have our personal records and tracking capability built into it.

In just a minute I’m going to show you the black and white of the law itself and you can see it with your own eyes and wonder why an event of this magnitude which is nothing less than seismic in nature is met with little more than silence in the Christian community.

Is it now starting to dawn on you just where exactly we are in prophecy? I’ll ask that question again in a minute and follow up on it, but now I want to show you the law itself. I’ve downloaded a PDF copy of HR3200 from the government's website so what I’m about to show you is from the bill itself its nothing that I’ve written. You can access it all and see it all for yourself straight from the source itself.

H.R. 3200 section 2521, Pg. 1001, paragraph 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— ‘‘is or has been used in or on a patient; ‘‘and is— ‘‘a class III device; or ‘‘a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.”

What exactly is a class II device that is implantable? As you saw earlier, it is the device approved by the FDA in 2004.

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuid...

A class II implantable device is an "implantable radio frequency 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."


Going back to what we just looked at, the creation of the national medical device registry in section 2521, page 1002 line 5: “In developing the registry, the secretary shall…” And the law continues on with a laundry list of items that the secretary must do in the process of creating this registry. In this laundry list of items to do, Line 17, subparagraph B: "validating methods for analyzing patient safety and outcomes data from multiple sources and for linking such data with the information included in the registry as described in subparagraph (A)."

Going back to subparagraph A, it says: “including in the registry, in a manner consistent with subsection (f), appropriate information to identify each device described in paragraph (1) by type, model, and serial number or other unique identifier;.... ” Don’t be confused by the intentional obfuscation and skillful wording, This law first creates the national device registry and then immediately list all the task the secretary of health and human services will have do in the process of creating this registry.

The very first two items in the list mandates that the secretary first gives a unique identification to each of the items listed in paragraph 1 which is: ‘‘a class III device; or ‘‘a class II device that is implantable.”

Then, the very next thing the secretary is to do is to create the process by which “patient safety and outcomes data from multiple sources”, which is electronic medical records, that are linked to these newly and uniquely identified items from paragraph 1 which are the class III and class II implantable devices. Class III devises are items such as breast implants, pacemakers, heart valves, etc. A Class II device that is implantable is, as you seen from the FDA, an implantable radio frequency transponder, RFID chip. From breast implants, to pacemakers, to RFID chips which one is the only possible one that can used for the stated purpose in section B which is, “for linking such data with the information included in the registry”? As we know from subsection A, the information in the registry is the name of a device. In plain languate, we are in a clear way being told that our electronic medical records are going to be linked to a class II implantable device!

Continuing a few lines down in this same section, section B subsection ii on still on page 1002, the “patient safety and outcomes data from multiple sources”, that is to be linked is clearly spelled out as electronic medical records. It reads: “link data obtained under clause (i) with information in the registry.”

Information in the registry is, as we know from subparagraph A, the name of the device. So what is the data obtained under clause (i)? Clause (i) reads: “obtain access to disparate sources of patient safety and outcomes data, including Federal health-related electronic data”. Again, from breast implants, to pacemakers, to RFID chips which one is the only possible one that can used for the stated purpose in section B? That stated purpose is “for linking such data” and the such data is electronic medical records. What we already have already seen in just the creation of this registry, is the device that will serve as the link, which is an RFID microchip that is categorized as a Class II implantable device, as well as what it will be the link for which is your electronic medical records.

In case the law wasn’t clear enough on that point, still in the laundry list of things to do a few more lines down on page 1005, it reads: “The Secretary to protect the public health; shall establish procedures to permit linkage of information submitted pursuant to subparagraph (A, remember subparagraph A is the class 2 implantable device reference) with patient safety and outcomes data obtained under paragraph (3, which is electronic medical records); and to permit analyses of linked data;”

Continuing on to page 1007, in the STANDARDS, IMPLEMENTATION CRITERIA, AND CERTIFICATION CRITERIA section, the secretary of health and human services is given full power to intact all mandates from the laundry list of to-do items in the creation process of the registry as well as dictate how the devises listed in the National Medical Device Registry are to be used and implemented.

"The Secretary of the Health Human Services, acting through the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, shall adopt standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use in certified electronic health records of a unique device identifier for each device described in paragraph 1 (National Medical Device Registry), if such an identifier is required by section 519(f) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360i(f)) for the device."

On Page 503, section E Lines 13-17, it reads: "encourage, as appropriate, the development and use of clinical registries and the development of clinical effectiveness research data networks from electronic health records, post marketing drug and medical device surveillance efforts". Let me say that again, medical device surveillance efforts!

Now let us look at section 163 of HR3200, which gives the government a direct electronic access to your bank account which will work in conjunction with an implanted chip.

Page 58 Lines 5 through 15 reads: (D) enable the real-time (or near real time) determination of an individual’s financial responsibility at the point of service and, to the extent possible, prior to service, including whether the individual is eligible for a specific service with a specific physician at a specific facility, which may include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identity detection card; (E) enable, where feasible, near real-time adjudication of claims

What does this mean? It means that the government will give everybody a health ID card that contains a machine readable device (magnetic strip or RFID chip) similar to a credit card. Embedded in this chip or strip is your Health Identification Number. When you visit a medical provider, the medical claims will be processed while you are still in the office. The medical providers will be paid in real time. The portion that you owe will be deducted from your bank account, in real time, according to HR 3200.

Notice here in this part which is at the beginning of 2000 plus pages of the law, it is carefully worded “which may include utilization of a machine-readable health plan beneficiary identity detection card”. Here we are told that it may be a card. As you have already seen, deeper in the law [Sec. 2521 Pg. 1000] what this “may” utilize is clearly spelled out as a “class II device that is implantable”.

We can only speculate at this point why the law is set up this way. Most likely this section was written to account for the gap in time from when the process of chipping begins to when everyone has received a chip. A means of starting with a card for the sake of expedience while the process of chipping citizenry plays out. One thing is certain, the law mandates that within 3 years we will all have a chip under our skin that will serve this purpose.

Evidence of this logic is found in the deadline set for the start of the registry on page 1006.

"EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish and begin implementation of the registry under section 519(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as added by paragraph (1), by not later than the date that is 36 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, without regard to whether or not final regulations to establish and operate the registry have been promulgated by such date."

Also on page 259, this law requires the use of Electronic medical records system in all hospitals by 2012 which will leave a gap of at least a year before the class II implantable device is required.

Republican Congressman Ron Paul from Texas, states on his website: "Buried deep within the over 1,000 pages of the massive US Health Care Bill (PDF) in a “non-discussed” section titled: Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521— National Medical Device Registry, and which states its purpose as........ He quotes that part of the law and then goes on to say: "In “real world speak”, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country".

That is from a currently serving member of congress. Cutting through all the political ease, the bottom line is that eventually if you want to participate in a government healthcare plan you will have to have this chip implanted in you. This law mandates that you have to have insurance and by virtue of this law guarantees that all private healthcare insurers will be driven out of business with only the government option left. We will be in a single payer system and you will have to have an imbedded chip to be a member of this system and it is mandatory that you be a part of this system.

I have a number of different pieces of data, I like to lay it all out in bit size pieces so the picture becomes clearer so I’m going to lay out the data and cut through the political circular logic and legal ease:

2004: Class II implantable devices receive FDA approval and verachip VeriMed electronic health records system also received approval from the FDA.

2009: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act authorized $23 billion in stimulus funds for health care information technology. In conjunction with that, VeriChip re-launches VeriMed electronic health records system which is a system that is made up of implantable RFID microchips, handheld scanners for emergency room personnel to read these chips, and online electronic personal health records.

2010: HR3200 was passed by the House and signed into law by President Obama. Now looking at the new law, Page 259 Electronic Medical Records system will be required for all healthcare providers by 2012.

Pages 1001-1002: A national medical device registry is created and populated with devices. Chiefly noted among them, a Class II medical device that is implantable.

Pages 1002-1004: Mandates the use of class II implantable devices to serve as the link between you and your electronic medical records.

Page 1005: The secretary of human services will establish the procedures for the linking of the Class II implantable device and electronic medical records.

Page 1007: Secretary of health and human services is given full power to intact all items required in the creation of the registry as well as the power to dictate how the devises listed in the National Medical Device Registry are to be used and implemented.

Page 503: Medical device surveillance is authorized.

Page 58: The link to your electronic medical records which is the Class II implantable device will also be linked to your bank account.

Page 1006: Without regard to whether or not final regulations are in place, you will be required to get a Class II implantable device linked to your medical records and bank account in order to participate in the government healthcare plan.

Pages 155-158: It is mandated that you have health insurance or you will pay $100.00 dollars per day that you are not covered.

Page 159: The IRS will enforce healthcare enrolment and fines for not caring health insurance.

Lastly, this law mandates that you have to have insurance and by virtue of this law, guarantees that all privet healthcare insurers will be driven out of business with only the government option left. We will be in a single payer system and you will have to have an imbedded chip to be a member of this system and it is mandatory that you be a part of this system.

This new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first nation in the world to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification microchip. In theory, the intent to streamline healthcare and to eliminate fraud via "health chips" seems right. But, to have the world's lone superpower mandate a device to be IMPLANTED is not just scary. It is prophetic!

Is this in its current form the mark of the beast? No it is not. The Bible is clear that this will not become the mark of the beast until midway through tribulation when it is somehow associated with a sign of allegiance to the Anti-Christ and it is in some way imprinted with a number or symbols associated 666.

However this is the very mechanism by which it will happen and obviously since the mark will be on a global scale, this has not fully played out. Keep in mind though, we are already staring down the barrel of a global government who will implement this on a global scale. Also, the rapture is a game changing event. If the global government hasn’t come to fruition at the point of the rapture, it will overnight when the rapture happens and this law will be applied across the board. I wouldn’t be surprised if same healthcare ruse won’t be applied under the premises that the mass disappearance of people is a global healthcare emergency and the application of this law [globally and under a global government] will prevent others from disappearing or at a minimum be a means of determining what happened via the tracking capability inherent to RFID chips.

Now I’m going to ask you the question that I asked earlier: Is it now starting to dawn on you just where exactly we are in prophecy? By virtue of the fact that this hasn’t sent tremors through the Christian community, one can only assume that community is asleep at the wheel. Maybe everyone is so bogged down in all the other evil facets to this new law that this has slipped through the cracks. I tend to doubt that is the case though. I think the reason that hardly no one has seemed to even so much as mentioned this is because human nature is kicking in and it’s hard to get past the logical mind when it is telling you that this just can’t be or this is somehow a misrepresentation of the new law and all those who had a part in it. Mixed in with that, no one wants to risk their reputation or for some their ministries reputation by saying something that could get them labeled as conspiracy nut.

Captain Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic said this statement shortly before the titanic embarked on its maiden voyage: “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” The point here is that people to tend see and believe what they want to see and believe and in this case, what’s easiest to not see and not believe.

All that you have seen so far is a matter of fact and easily investigated by yourself. So I say again, is it now starting to dawn on you just where exactly we are in prophecy? Romans 13:11: “And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.”

OBAMACARE - Is currently being implemented by Obama with LIGHTNING SPEED. Over 6000 pages of implementation rules have already been written. The unconstitutionality rulings in 2 well-respected courts have not deterred the government in the slightest. Americans have to know this is going on.

Remember when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Well, guess what they found? $105.5 billion in hidden appropriations. Practically no member of Congress knew such funding provisions were included in the bill. Michele Bachmann and the Republicans will now demand that the $105.5 billion be returned to the to their rightful owners, the American taxpayers. As Bachmann says: "We’ve been hunting and pecking to look for $61 billion in savings from the budget, and we just find out now that [top Democrats] have already appropriated much more than that? $105 billion over the next 8 years and nobody knew about it? They took this money by deception. They failed to disclose critical terms of that bill. This was a fraud when they put that though. That’s why we must insist that we will not give one red cent of funding after March 18 until they first give the money back. Then we can discuss the budget..... They told no one they were prefunding the implementation. Republicans were all arguing that if we got the gavel in 2010 that we could effectively repeal Obamacare between now and 2012 because we could defund it. That option was taken away from us, the people’s voice in 2010 was neutered."

Among the more egregious provisions in the law is Section 1311(a), which gives the Health and Human Services Secretary carte blanche over the amount of taxpayer dollars that be expended toward implementation of health-care exchanges in any of the 50 states. On its face, the provision seems to be yet another example of language that runs at cross purposes with the Constitution, which uniquely assigns the capacity to allocate funds to Congress.

Another issue with ObamaCare is that it is being applied arbitrarily. The entire state of Maine has just been granted a waiver to its mandate by President Obama. So now there are 2 NEW Constitutional challenges to ObamaCare:

1). Equal Protection argument (laws must be applied equally to all Americans)

2). Powers Constitutionally reserved to Congress (allocation of funds) have been unconstitutionally delegated to the Health and Human Services Secretary (carte blanche)

Diane Rufino

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010--Today In Washington

The CQ Roll Call



The Senate. Convened at 9:30 and is voting on whether to invoke cloture and start debating legislation that would boost federal regulation of food safety — by giving the FDA power to mandate recalls, to set new standards for manufacturers and to oversee shipments of fruits and vegetables.

Senators voted 58-41 against invoking cloture on motion that would have allowed debate on a bill aiming to narrow the gender gap in wages. The tally was two votes short of the amount needed to advance the bill, effectively dooming it for the year.

Any chance for an energy bill this year also died last night when Reid canceled a third cloture vote, originally set for today, on a bill to promote natural gas and electric cars.

The House. Convened at 10 and is expected to sustain Obama’s veto of a bill that he says could unintentionally make it more difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosures. The vote is expected after 4. The measure, which cleared after voice votes in both the House and Senate, would increase notarization requirements on mortgage paperwork.

The White House. Obama sent Hillary Clinton to the Capitol this morning to try to revive prospects for the Russian arms control treaty. Senate ratification became a decided longshot yesterday after GOP Whip Jon Kyl announced his opposition, stunning a White House that thought it could negotiate for his support — and with it the backing of enough other Republicans to reach the required 67 votes. After meeting with the top senators on Foreign Relations, John Kerry and Richard Lugar, she boldly predicted ratification by the end of the year — but did not signal her strategy for getting that done. After her Capitol trip, the secretary of State is then headed to the White House Situation Room to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan with the president and the rest of his national security team.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like... Hill Democrats’ ambitions for their lame duck are shrinking by the day. But the session is destined to last deep into December, anyway, now that the agenda-setting summit between Obama and congressional leaders — which was scheduled for tomorrow — has been put off until Nov. 30. What was supposed to be policy-rich discussion in the West Wing, followed by a symbolically rich breaking of bipartisan bread in the White House residence, is now the most recent example of how even the simplest things in Washington get stained with partisan bile. The White House is miffed that McConnell and Boehner would disrespect the president by citing unspecified “scheduling conflicts” in insisting on the postponement. The Republicans were miffed that Obama had announced the meeting right after the election without checking on the GOP leaders’ availability.

Either way, the delay gives the GOP leaders more time to prepare their opening bids. And it means any meaningful negotiations on the lame duck’s biggest agenda items, the tax cut extensions and discretionary spending, will have to wait. The current stopgap spending bill expires just three days after the rescheduled summit, on Dec. 3. Look for the next CR to last until the following Friday, Dec. 10. And no one at the Capitol believes that will be the final legislative day of the year, either.

Democrats in a Delay. House Democrats are bogged down this morning over the procedures for their leadership elections. Some are pushing to delay the balloting altogether for at least two weeks. Others are insisting that there be plenty of time for speeches before the secret balloting begins. It looks like an announcemt of the results at 1 will have to be delayed.

More than three dozen Democrats are poised to vote against making Pelosi their minority leader. Only lawmakers who will be in the caucus next year (plus a handful more in still-close races) will get to vote behind the closed Cannon Caucus Room doors, which should hold down the number of ballots for North Carolina’s Heath Shuler, who mounted a quixotic candidacy on behalf of disaffected centrists. Many of the centrists who were defeated two weeks ago politely but firmly told Pelosi last night — at a caucus meeting that lasted almost four hours — that she was too polarizing and too liberal a leader.

Birthday Present. The anointing of Boehner as the next Speaker (and all the jocularity about his turning 61 today) will get under way soon after House Republicans convene their organizational meeting at 1 in the Way and Means Committee hearing room. He’s running unopposed, and there are no contested races for the top tier leadership jobs. Last night, Florida’s Connie Mack gave up his challenge to Georgia’s Tom Price for the chairmanship of the Republican Policy Committee, which is No. 6 in the hierarchy.

The caucus is likely to postpone a debate about term limits for committee chairmen. Joe Barton and Jerry Lewis want the currently ambiguous party rules changed to give themselves at least a fighting chance at winning the gavels of Energy and Commerce and Appropriations, respectively. But because neither of them is likely to get a gavel — waivers or rules changes or not — House Republicans are likely to punt on this debate for another two years. Then, if the GOP holds the House in 2012, four incoming chairmen would be forced to give up their gavels under the current rules: Lamar Smith at Judiciary, John Mica at Transportation, Paul Ryan at Budget and Spencer Bachus at Banking.

The freshman class has some decisions to make, now that it has pressed the elders for even more clout in the leadership ranks. A week after creating two new seats at the power tables for newcomers, Boehner and Cantor last night announced they would create a second freshman spot in the inner leadership circle and a third freshman slot on the committee-assignment-making Steering Committee.

Bean and Ballot Counting. Financial consultant and tea party insurgent Joe Walsh will be coming to Congress next year to represent the northern Chicago suburbs. Melissa Bean conceded to him last night that she had narrowly lost her bid for a fourth term. That puts the net gain of GOP seats in the House at 61.

Senate write-in ballot counting was completed in Alaska last night, and Lisa Murkowski was ahead of official GOP nominee Joe Miller by at least 2,000 (and more than 10,000 if she gets her way on all the ballots Miller is contesting). Although some legal challenges remain, it seems ever more clear she will be coming back to Congress.

And she sounds eager to get back — and to be a potential thorn in the side of the party leaders who worked so hard and threatened so much in an effort to get her to drop her write-in in bid. Yesterday, she issued a tartly worded statement that she opposed the voluntary earmark ban that McConnell reluctantly pushed through the caucus.

— David Hawkings, editor