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Steve,
Even if you are the most liberal person in this country, what happened should scare the crap out of you. Congress voting on (in mass) and passing a bill without ever reading what was in it. That is how people get to visit places like Dachau.
There is at least one provision that the senate stuck in at the last minute, a records keeping law that will affect your medical care. That law gives the feds control over your medical treatment, ala Britain or Canada and creates a new huge federal medical gang. Now it is just for information, without penalty, for non-compliance. But, hospitals and doctors have a license to practice and coercion is very simple. The effect of that law will be to determine what procedures are allowed based on expense. If you are 26 a transplant is not too expensive, but if you are over 50 a transplant is way to expensive. The camel has his nose under the tent.
Best,
Ed
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