It is my understanding that the staff of Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) went through the Health Care Plan put forth by the Obama administration that is currently going through the House and developed a flow chart showing how it is supposed to work. They went through the bill, line-by-line, and documented each step and agency as it is stated in the bill.
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In an interview that I saw with Representative Brady, he was asked if they tried to make this chart look scarier than what it really is going to be. He replied that due to the complexity of some of the provisions his staff actually combined a few of the proposed agencies/steps in order to simply their final chart.
Representative Brady went on in the interview to say that the big blue box in the middle, the “Health Choices Administration,” would be the most powerful agency in this proposed system. It would be this agency that single-handedly picks the “winners and losers” in terms of insurance companies and medical providers.
I’m sure that it will be analyzed, discredited, and mostly ignored by the main stream media. Would make for a good full page ad in a few newspapers, wouldn’t it?
bill (06:17:41) :
Geoff Sherrington (01:57:17) :
“I was, but I cannot understand why we are discussing sunspots. Do they form pixie dust and nucleate rainstorms?”
Take a look at the noctilucent cloud story over at SpaceWeather.com right now:
http://www.spaceweather.com/
“NOCTILUCENT STORM: Last night, after a two week intermission, noctilucent clouds returned to Europe in force. “It was one of the best displays of the summer,” reports Jan Koeman of Kloetinge, The Netherlands. “The beautiful rippling structure of the electric-blue clouds reminded me of the skin of a Great Blue Whale!” He took this picture using a Nikon D300:
Similar reports poured in from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, England and France. “They were so bright I could see them from one of the most light-polluted places one could imagine–the Brussels Ringway,” says Philippe Mollet, who made a movie of the clouds gliding over the urban heart of Belgium.
2009 has been a good year for noctilucent clouds–and that’s no surprise. Noctilucent clouds almost always surge during years of solar minimum. No one fully understands why, but here is a popular idea: Low solar activity allows the upper atmosphere to cool, promoting the formation of ice crystals that make up the clouds. Browse the gallery for observing tips and more snapshots from July 12th and 13th:
http://www.spaceweather.com/nlcs/images2009/12jul09/Jan-Koeman1.jpg?PHPSESSID=1hsbgpc1d0aerneemb261m59t5 ”
Yes, it appears that when the big ball of fire belches less fire there is an increase in “pixie dust” that appears to facilitate cloud formation and may impact Earth’s climate.
Leif, I haven’t seen any info on solar wind recently. Do you have a good chart on this? Has solar wind picked up as Cycle 24 has begun?
For the above text and lots more goto:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/12/ken-tapping-still-no-sign-of-the-next-cycle/