"ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS"
What's This Hidden In The Health
Care Act
While we have
been looking at the health care bill and the
unconstitutionality of the government take over of our health
care, we appear to have not noticed that something else was
happening while we were focused on the man with the balls
(so-to-say, no pun intended).
In the
picture to the right, you will see that while the magic man keeps
the crowd focused on his cups and balls trick, his friend
is stealing the purse of a very focused onlooker. We have been very
focused on the health care part of the health care bill, but there
is something else to this, something else happened.
The
something else is the establishing of a ready reserves
corps that is to be ready for any "national emergency," a corps
that would be "subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon
General." --The Surgeon General has a new
power.
Down
below, you will find the section of the bill that I am referring to.
The entire bill can be found here: Click
Here -- You read it. And please tell me what you think of
it. Tell me what you think it is and why you believe it is
there.
Debra J.M. Smith - 03-31-10
www.InformingChristians.com
19 SEC. 5210.
ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
20 Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act
(42
21 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows:
22 ‘‘SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY
RESERVE
23 CORPS.
24 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—
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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the
Serv
2 ice a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready
Re
3 serve Corps for service in time of national
emer
4 gency.
5 ‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT.—All commissioned officers
6 shall be citizens of the United States and shall
be
7 appointed without regard to the civil-service
laws
8 and compensated without regard to the
Classifica
9 tion Act of 1923, as amended.
10 ‘‘(3) APPOINTMENT.—Commissioned officers of
11 the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by
the
12 President and commissioned officers of the
Regular
13 Corps shall be appointed by the President with
the
14 advice and consent of the Senate.
15 ‘‘(4) ACTIVE DUTY.—Commissioned officers of
16 the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be
sub
17 ject to call to active duty by the Surgeon
General,
18 including active duty for the purpose of
training.
19 ‘‘(5) WARRANT OFFICERS.—Warrant officers
20 may be appointed to the Service for the purpose
of
21 providing support to the health and delivery
systems
22 maintained by the Service and any warrant
officer
23 appointed to the Service shall be considered for
pur
24 poses of this Act and title 37, United States
Code,
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1 to be a commissioned officer within the
Commis
2 sioned Corps of the Service.
3 ‘‘(b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO
4 THE REGULAR CORPS.—Effective on the date of
enact
5 ment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act,
6 all individuals classified as officers in the
Reserve Corps
7 under this section (as such section existed on the
day be
8 fore the date of enactment of such Act) and serving
on
9 active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned
officers
10 of the Regular Corps.
11 ‘‘(c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESEARCH.—
12 ‘‘(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Ready
Re
13 serve Corps is to fulfill the need to have
additional
14 Commissioned Corps personnel available on short
15 notice (similar to the uniformed service’s
reserve
16 program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps
per
17 sonnel to meet both routine public health and
emer
18 gency response missions.
19 ‘‘(2) USES.—The Ready Reserve Corps shall—
20 ‘‘(A) participate in routine training to
21 meet the general and specific needs of the
Com
22 missioned Corps;
23 ‘‘(B) be available and ready for involuntary
24 calls to active duty during national
emergencies
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1 and public health crises, similar to the
uni
2 formed service reserve personnel;
3 ‘‘(C) be available for backfilling critical
po
4 sitions left vacant during deployment of active
5 duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as
6 for deployment to respond to public health
7 emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and
8 ‘‘(D) be available for service assignment in
9 isolated, hardship, and medically underserved
10 communities (as defined in section 799B) to
11 improve access to health services.
12 ‘‘(d) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out
the
13 duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned
Corps
14 under this section, there are authorized to be
appropriated
15 $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through
2014
16 for recruitment and training and $12,500,000 for
each of
17 fiscal years 2010 through 2014 for the Ready
Reserve
18
Corps.’’.
