Reid Did It! Nazi "Eternity" Section in Health Bill Put in Secretly Behind Closed Doors
December 29, 2009 (LPAC)—The fascist secret clauses in the Senate health-care bill — attempting to forbid any future Congress from changing any of the provisions relating to the dictatorial, genocidal Independent Medicare Advisory Board — were inserted into the bill during closed-door meetings in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, not by an amendment duly considered by the Senate.
The subsection of the Senate bill which we reprint below, entitled "LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO THE BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS," was not in the Senate Finance Committee bill as approved by the committee on October 13, and printed on October 19 — even though the committee version contain much of the exact language surrounding this subsection which was incorporated into the final Senate bill. Nor was it in the House bill HR 3962. This subsection first appeared in the so-called "Substitute Amendment" filed in the Senate on November 19, after a month's worth of secret discussions and negotiations in Reid's office. Unlike proceedings in committees, or on the Senate floor, there is no record of what took place in Reid's office, although a number of accounts reported that the Obama White House was deeply involved in the secret negotiations.
December 29, 2009 (LPAC)—The fascist secret clauses in the Senate health-care bill — attempting to forbid any future Congress from changing any of the provisions relating to the dictatorial, genocidal Independent Medicare Advisory Board — were inserted into the bill during closed-door meetings in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office, not by an amendment duly considered by the Senate.
The subsection of the Senate bill which we reprint below, entitled "LIMITATION ON CHANGES TO THE BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS," was not in the Senate Finance Committee bill as approved by the committee on October 13, and printed on October 19 — even though the committee version contain much of the exact language surrounding this subsection which was incorporated into the final Senate bill. Nor was it in the House bill HR 3962. This subsection first appeared in the so-called "Substitute Amendment" filed in the Senate on November 19, after a month's worth of secret discussions and negotiations in Reid's office. Unlike proceedings in committees, or on the Senate floor, there is no record of what took place in Reid's office, although a number of accounts reported that the Obama White House was deeply involved in the secret negotiations.
The language in the Nov. 19 "Substitute Amendment" became part of the final bill passed by the entire Senate on the morning of December 24. This subsection is found on pages 1001-2 of the final bill, as printed by the GPO.
Following is the subsection of the final Senate health-care bill, subsection (d)(3), part of Section 3403, which attempts to prohibit any future changes to IMAB recommendations, or even to this subsection itself!
The impudent tyranny of Sen. Harry Reid... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is proving once again the maxim that darkness hates the light. Buried in his massive amendment to the Senate version of Obamacare is Reid's anti-democratic poison pill designed to prevent any future Congress from repealing the central feature of this monstrous legislation!
Beginning on page 1,000 of the measure, Section 3403 reads in part: ". it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."
In other words, if President Barack Obama signs this measure into law, no future Senate or House will be able to change a single word of Section 3403, regardless whether future Americans or their representatives in Congress wish otherwise!!
Note that the subsection at issue here concerns the regulatory power of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB) to "reduce the per capita rate of growth in Medicare spending."
That is precisely the kind of open-ended grant of regulatory power that effectively establishes the IMAB as the ultimate arbiter of the cost, quality and quantity of health care to be made available to the American people. And Reid wants the decisions of this group of unelected federal bureaucrats to be untouchable for all time.
No wonder the majority leader tossed aside assurances that senators and the public would have at least 72 hours to study the text of the final Senate version of Obamacare before the critical vote on cloture. And no wonder Reid was so desperate to rush his amendment through the Senate, even scheduling the key tally on it at 1 a.m., while America slept.
True to form, Reid wanted to keep his Section 3403 poison pill secret for as long as possible, just as he negotiated his bribes for the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bernie Sanders of Vermont behind closed doors.
The final Orwellian touch in this subversion of democratic procedure is found in the ruling of the Reid-controlled Senate Parliamentarian that the anti-repeal provision is not a change in Senate rules, but rather of Senate "procedures." Why is that significant?
Because for 200 years, changes in the Senate's standing rules have required approval by two-thirds of those voting, or 67 votes rather than the 60 Reid's amendment received.
Reid has flouted two centuries of standing Senate rules to pass a measure in the dead of night that no senator has read, and part of which can never be changed. If this is not tyranny, then what is?
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