Too much power in one place

[stebo0728]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05824.html

[telcoman]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05824.html

The writer was secretary of health and human services in the George W. Bush administration.

He was a failure then and still is

Telcoman

[IBCoupe]

Ugh. I know I'm going to hear this from a lot of retarded conservatives:

Tooth-level surveillance? Yeah, that's an allowance for Congress to give more money to interstate programs, where States will continue to report on the dental health of children and pregnant women, in conjunction with efforts to track the effects of oral hygiene on pregnancies. For f***'s sake, can we come up with legitimate grievances? There's not going to be a government agent looking in your mouth.

(d) UPDATING NATIONAL ORAL HEALTHCARE SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES.—
(1) PRAMS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall carry out activities to update and improve the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (referred to in this section as ‘‘PRAMS’’) as it relates to oral healthcare.
(B) STATE REPORTS AND MANDATORY MEASUREMENTS.— (i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 5 years thereafter, a State shall submit to the Secretary a report concerning activities conducted within the State under
PRAMS. (ii) MEASUREMENTS.—The oral healthcare measurements developed by the Secretary for use under PRAMS shall be mandatory with respect to States for purposes of the State reports under clause (i).
(C) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this paragraph, such sums as may be necessary.

(2) NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY.—The Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance for inclusion in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Such components shall be updated by the Secretary at least every 6 years. For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘‘toothlevel surveillance’’ means a clinical examination where an examiner looks at each dental surface, on each tooth in the mouth and as expanded by the Division of Oral Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(3) MEDICAL EXPENDITURES PANEL SURVEY.—The Secretary shall ensure that the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality includes the verification of dental utilization, expenditure, and coverage findings through conduct of a look-back analysis.

(4) NATIONAL ORAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.—
(A) APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014 to increase the participation of States in the National Oral Health Surveillance System from 16 States to all 50 States, territories, and District of Columbia.
(B) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall ensure that the National Oral Health Surveillance System include the measurement of early childhood caries.

I'm getting real tired of people lying when they can't come up with a legitimate complaint.

[IBCoupe]

The United States became the most powerful and prosperous nation in the history of the world not through central planning and bureaucracy but because our Founders chose a different course: freedom, limited government, state and local leadership, and private-sector innovation. That formula will work in health care, and absent the repeal or overturning of last year's law, it starts with the delegation of powers to states.

This bugs me, too. I heard a freshman Congressman from NY utter the same crap, and I have to say that it's a lot of the same historical revisionism that I complained about in that other thread. The accurate story of our nation isn't titled, "America: Great Until the Liberals Got here." Left-leaning politics have been here since the very beginning - today's conservatives would have called George Washington a socialist, because he was on the left side of our political divide.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

[audtatious]

Democrats say Rawrrrrrr!!!!!

[heliochrome85]

Democrats say Rawrrrrrr!!!!!

[AZhitman]

The writer was secretary of health and human services in the George W. Bush administration.

He was a failure then and still is

I assume you come to your ignorant conclusions based on the fact that he was associated with the Bush Administration.

You're a cartoon, Howie.

p.s. What have YOU accomplished lately?

[heliochrome85]

The writer was secretary of health and human services in the George W. Bush administration.

He was a failure then and still is

I assume you come to your ignorant conclusions based on the fact that he was associated with the Bush Administration.

You're a cartoon, Howie.

p.s. What have YOU accomplished lately?

he always wins the race.

[AZhitman]

That's not Howie. Kids in New Jersey don't play outside.

[audtatious]

Howie would break a hip if he tried to jump.