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Monday, November 30, 2009 at 17:29:52 mst
Comment ID: #1 (link)
Name: Mel McGuire

Thanks again Paul. I found an article on MSNBC about 7 "Little-publicized provisions". One of which is about "adult preparation". So, beyond medicine, the bill wants to get into parenting. There is $400 million in the "The Personal Responsibility Education for Adulthood Training" amendment. The topics included are isssues of morality, philosophy, and psychological theory and can only result in a battle for power to set content and run the programs or to protect kids from them. Of course, every statist ideological group around will want a piece of this action.

Link to MSNBC "7 items you didn't know were in the Senate bill..." By Mary Agnes Carey, Phil Galewitz and Laurie McGinley
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34209992/ns/health-health_care/

"Learning to be an adult
Being a teenager is tough. The Senate wants to help with a provision allocating $400 million from 2010 to 2015 to help teens make the transition to adulthood.

The money goes to states primarily to set up sex education programs. But the money can also be used for "adult preparation" programs that promote "positive self esteem, relationship dynamics, friendships, dating, romantic involvement, marriage and family interaction."

In addition, the programs can teach financial literacy and other skills such as goal setting, decision-making and stress management. About $10 million of funding would go to "innovative youth pregnancy prevention strategies" in areas of the country with high teen birth rates."


Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 20:58:50 mst
Comment ID: #2 (link)
Name: Ashley King
E-mail: atking(at)mtaonline.net

Re #2-5

So, the government and the quasi-nationalized insurance industry will accumulate medical data on the citizens, without their consent, to better ration their medical services.

You have to pinch yourself to realize this is almost law.


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