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US Health Care Bill pays a Visit to the Bizarro World |
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Written by Mike Cohen
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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I've been trying to read our Healthcare bill, and have found to be impossible because after reading it (mind you new sections seem to be added every minute), I may need two attorneys and English translators to come up with an explanation of what it all means.
Sorry to have to expose you to a portion of that very poorly written, 1990 page health care bill (Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521 National Medical Device Registry), but maybe you can tell me what it means.
"... 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 that has been used in or on a patient; and (B) is a Class III device; or (ii) A Class II device that is Implantable..." Now what is this? From what I could gather, devices that are implantable are called MicroChips, I know this much. "Class II, Class III implantable devices, data on each device"? Really? What are micorchips doing in a Health Care bill?
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