Obama has his own army built into the middle of the health care "LAW". Now we k now why it had to be rushed through.This is so important that I had to put it in a blog of its own.
H. R. 3590-496 (Page 496) SEC. 5210. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS. "(a) ESTABLISHMENT.-
"(1) IN GENERAL.-There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.
"(2) REQUIREMENT.-All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.
"(3) APPOINTMENT.-Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
"(4) ACTIVE DUTY.-Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject
to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training.
2 comments:
The US Public Health Service has been around since 1798 (the original Marine Hospital Service Act was signed into law by John Adams) and the commissioned corps of the PHS - its uniformed compnent - has been around since 1898. The USPHS is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. It is an all-officer, elite corps of medical and other public health professionals. USPHS officers serve as the medical corps of the Coast Guard, fill hoard-to-fill positions in the federal Bureau of Prisons, Indian Health Services, and provide DOD mental health services to returning troops, among many other roles.
All the new health care bill did to the USPHS was to eliminate its former "active reserve corps" and create a "ready reserve" modeled after the other uniformed services, and lift the former cap on the Regular Corps (originally set at 2000) to allow the 6500 officers presently serving to be deemed members of the Regular Corps.
There are currently 6500 active duty USPHS officers serving in a variety of posts around the US and around the world. This continued spread of politically-motivated misinformation about the USPHS is insulting to the men and women of the UPSHS who serve and have served our country for over 200 years. I do not work for the USPHS, but I have worked alongside many of their officers for a long time, and have nothing but respect for their service.
Your point is? The way it reads one thing has nothing to do with the other. If you can point out exactly where I'm wrong, I apologize. Read #2..."without the regard of the Classification Act of 1932 as ammended. Carolyn
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