Hospitals & Asylums
Title 24 US Code
By Anthony J. Sanders
sanderstony@live.com
Constitution of Hospitals & Asylums Non Governmental Economics (CHANGE)
To enact parliamentary democracy a non-governmental
political organization named Hospitals & Asylums (HA) was drafted in
2000. In its ninth draft the
Constitution reached the desired length of 100 articles and 50 pages. The history of HA dates to the Naval Hospital
Act of Feb. 26, 1811.
A compromise was reached and the codification of Title 24 of the United
States Code was passed in 1924 whereupon the positive law has been neglected
until such a day the government is ready to lay down their propaganda and be
true to the ideals of the revolution.
The mission of HA is to teach people of the right to write Hospitals & Asylums at the top of their prose documents, email
them to the Secretary, also author, for speedy response, reparation,
publication, counsel and recovery from illness.
A Republican form of government ensures the rule of law upholds the inherent dignity and equal and
inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of
freedom, justice and peace in the world.
In a liberal multi-party Democracy principled officials are elected by
secret ballot by 2/3 of adult citizens.
All people shall enjoy their privileges and immunities under the
International Bill of Rights, social insurance and be respected for their
work. The economic laws of supply of
demand, law of diminishing returns, fair wages, balanced budget, trade balance
and currency appreciation, regulate a free market. HA proposes the largest and most
comprehensive government reform package in the history of both the United
States of America and United Nations.
Human rights and a ten-year halfway house plan are incorporated into two
civil rights amendments; the US Constitution is amended for a balanced budget
and civil law system, the UN Charter for a civilian form of government, an
international tax administration and human rights council. Sustain human civilization and progress,
purchase a Subscription
to HA
CHAPTER 1
Military Democracy (MD)
To transfer Chapter One Navy
Hospitals, Naval Home, Army and other Naval Hospital, and Hospital Relief for
Seamen and Others §1-40
to Chapter 10 Armed Forces Retirement Home §400-435
and write a whole new Chapter on military democracy. This Chapter shall change the name of the
Department of Defense (DoD)
to the Military Department (MD). The US
Military employs an estimated 2.8 million US citizens including 600,000
civilian employees. In FY 2009 military spending rose to
$611 billion one half of global military spending. The elimination of nuclear
arsenal is a priority. Under the
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the US, who has an estimated 10,000
warheads, must reduce their arsenal to no more than 1,700
to 2,200 nuclear warheads by 2012.
Elimination of various Cold War weapons systems can save $50 billion
from maintenance, redeployment from Iraq and Afghanistan can save another $50
billion. Since its foundation the
US military has suffered nearly 1.3 million casualties in 13 wars. There are reported to be 26.4 million US
veterans. To keep the peace the military
must carefully prohibit the use of force, thermal oceanic dumping, biological
experimentation and damaging environmental modification programs; carbon
emissions must be capped. Military
spending must be limited to not more than $400 billion annually. Surplus military assets shall be sold to the
most peaceful bidder. To earn lower cost
humanitarian status for US missions the US shall veto UN Chapter VII missions
and instead promote humanitarian missions that pay payroll taxes and corporate
profits, less social insurance and deductibles, to the general treasury of any
developing democratic nation they occupy.
The United States must purchase rights to African Command, Iraq
Reconstruction Fund and US/Afghan Peace Treaty from the Author; and elect a
new, civilian Secretary for the Department.
Democratic peace theory holds that liberal democracies tend to be more
peaceful than authoritarian or totalitarian states because they don’t make war
upon other democratic nations…51
CHAPTER 2
Attorney General Ethics (AGE)
To
amend Chapter 2 Soldier’s and Airmen’s Home §41-70. the
American Legal System has failed, lawyers are either behind bars or drunk on
power, a civil law system must be instituted by lowering law school entrance to
high school graduates and the bar exam to BA and honorably disbar all lawyers
who are elected or appointed to public, commercial or social office other than
judicial, a Justice of the Peace Amendment to the United States Constitution
and this Chapter will establish 5 year terms for federal judges, with a two
term limit for justices, repeal the constitutional right to bear arms and
quartering of troops in people’s homes, to change the name of prosecutor to
district attorney, elect licensed social workers to adjudicate probate,
divorce, mental illness, substance abuse, tenant-landlord and small claims, to
abolish the death penalty, to change the name of the Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA) to Drug Evaluation Agency (DEA) and transfer to the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), to change the name of the Court of International Trade of the United
States (CoITUS) to Customs Court (CC), to change the
name of the Office of Violence Against Women to Office of Women’s Rights and
transfer to Social Work Administration (SWA) when established, to ratify
Optional Human Rights Protocols, to transfer the Justice Assistance Grant (JAG)
and other extra-jurisdictional finance entirely to halfway house programs, to
reduce the jail and prison population to less than 250 per 100,000 residents,
and to eliminate court filing fees for prose to benefit the poor. In 2001, the majority of the 93 million judicial cases filed, were
processed by 15,555 state trial courts operating under the supervision of the
county; 13,515 of limited jurisdiction and 2,040 of general jurisdiction,
operated by 29,266 judges. There were 55.7
million traffic cases filed, 15.8 million cases were filed with the civil
division, 14.1 million Criminal cases, Domestic
Relations processed 5.3 million cases, 2 million criminal cases were
filed in Juvenile Courts and 276,408 cases were filed
with the Appellate Courts…219
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3 Health and Welfare (HaW
)
To
amend Chapter 3 National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers §71-150.
To pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. To adequately staff the Social Security
Administration (SSA) to eliminate the disability backlog and supervise health
care. To add cardiovascular disease the
Disability Quick List. To change the name of the Centers for Medicare Medicaid
and SCHIP (CMS) to National Health Insurance (NHI) and transfer the
confidential government health insurance program to SSA. Freeze or limit
medical cost increases to less than 3%.
Allow for patients to refuse to pay for unnecessary, overpriced, or
harmful medical treatment. Evolve to a
universal health insurance system and then to a national health service that is
free for all. Establish a 1% social
security payroll tax for international development. Ultimately we must eliminate the income cap
on SSA contributions to create a welfare system that would completely eliminate
poverty in the United States. One-in-six Americans receives
a Social Security benefit. At the end of 2008, almost 51 million people
were receiving benefits: 35 million retired workers and dependents of retired workers, 6
million survivors of deceased workers, and 9 million disabled workers and
dependents of disabled workers. During the year, an estimated 162 million
people had earnings covered by Social Security and paid payroll taxes. Total
benefits paid in 2008 were $615 billion. Total income was $805 billion, and
assets held in special issue U.S. Treasury securities grew to $2.4 trillion. Together Medicare and
Medicaid served 87 million people at a combined cost of $602 billion. Health care reform is social security
reform. Medicare and Medicaid operate
under Social Security statute, it is logical that they would follow SSA to
independence, but SSA must be adequately staffed to enforce their pension for
civil torts…370
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4 State Mental Institution Library Education (SMILE)
To
amend Chapter 4 St. Elizabeth’s Hospital §161-230, transfer §321-329 from Chapter 9 Hospitalization of
the Mentally Ill National Returned from Foreign Countries to §189-194 of this
Chapter and change the name of the Substance Abuse Mental Health Service
Administration (SAMHSA) to the Social Work Administration (SWA) to administrate
a review tribunal of hospitalizations by licensed social workers. Globally mental illness and psychological
disorders stemming from substance abuse are estimated to affect a combined
total of 450 million people, 7.3% of the population. 55% of Americans suffered from mental illness
at some time in their life and 1 in 5 Americans experience a diagnosable mental
disorder in any given year. In 1997
30,535 people died from suicide in the U.S, it was the 11th leading
cause of death in 2000. Mental illness
is the second leading cause of disability, costing disability insurance an
estimated $24 billion and medical insurance $65 billion annually, with mental
health organizations accounting for around $38 billion in expenditures. The de-institutionalization movement has been
successful in reducing the psychiatric inpatient population by half from
515,572 in 1970 to 198,195 in 1998.
During this time the District of Columbia Mental Health System was
successful in reducing the inpatient population of St. Elizabeth’s hospital
from 7,000 to 600. The buildings have
been sold to the Department of Homeland Security. During 1999 there were 1.7 million admissions
to inpatient psychiatric treatment, 424,450 of those were involuntary
commitments. Civil commitments and judge enforced medication must be
prohibited. The national directive is to
close all state mental institutions and private psychiatric hospitals. An insane asylum is not an asylum it is a
persecution. MIRROR form…545
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5 International Development (ID)
To
amend Chapter 5 Columbia Institution for the Deaf Title 24 US Code §231-250 sixth draft.
Under the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, the number of hungry people
living on less than $1 a day is set to decline to 10% (622 million people) by
2015. In 2005 843 million people, 12.5%
of the world population, and over a billion lived on less than a dollar a day,
in 2009 after the economic crisis the number of hungry people is estimated to
have risen to 18% (1.2 billion people).
To achieve the MDGs the US resolves to negotiate a 30% appreciation of
most developing nation currencies and increase Official Development Assistance
(ODA) in real terms and as a ratio of Gross National Income (GNI) and in the
long run levy a 1% social security style payroll tax for international
development. To establish a new
international economic system it is resolved to reform voting in the Bretton
Woods institutions to a system based on population, a one person one vote, to
use the IMF Special Drawing Right (SDR) as the international reserve currency
and to negotiate a 30% appreciation of most developing nation currencies To
create conditions where both peace and prosperity can flourish it is resolved
for the United States to amend Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse
(a-FRaI-d) to Foreign Relations (FR-ee), to change the name of the Court of
International Trade of the United States (CoITUS) to Customs Court (CC), to
consider changing the name of US Agency for International Development (USAID)
to US International Development and to divide the USAID Bureau for Asia and the
Near East (ANE) into the Bureau for Middle East and Central Asia (MECA)
including Indonesia and North Africa and the Bureau for South East Asia (SEA)
including Oceania. Although the number
of casualties of war have gone down greatly under the United Nations income
inequality, poverty and deaths from preventable disease have increased and it
is resolved to set down the Generals of the United Nations (GUN), freely elect
a Secretary of the UN (SUN), change ECOSOC to SEA, General Assembly to
Parliament, Trusteeship to Human Rights Council, International Tax
Administration and renumber for a legitimate civilian government by ratifying
the United Nations Charter Legitimate Edition (UNCLE)…674
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6 Judicial Delinquency (JD)
To
amend Chapter 6 Freedmen’s Hospital §261-270, fourth draft. A record 7 million people - or one in every 32 American adults -
were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of 2005. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail,
an increase of 2.7% over the previous year.
The US prison population quintupled between 1980 and 2004. In 1980 the US was a model judiciary with 503,586 prisoners (220 per
100,000). In 2004 the prison population was 2,085,620 (707 per 100,000).
The US prison population is 24% of the 9 million global prisoners. The US has the most and densest
concentration of prisoners in the world with an average of 724 prisoners per
100,000 citizens. For the US to achieve
the legal limit of 250 per 100,000 the total number of local jail, state and
federal prison beds must be limited to less than 740,000. 1 million is good goal. Nearly 650,000 people are released from prison to
communities each year. There are over 3,200 jails throughout the United States,
the vast majority of which are operated by county governments. Each year, these jails will release in excess
of 10,000,000, 3.3% of the population, back into the community. Nearly two thirds of released State prisoners
are expected to be rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three
years after release. Racial disparities among prisoners
persist in the 25-29 age group, 8.1% of black men - about one in 13 – were
behind bars, compared with 2.6% of Hispanic men and 1.1% of white men. Under Section 6 of the Justice of the Peace
Amendment to the US Constitution, States shall probate and parole
criminal offenders to community correctional housing and equal employment
opportunity programs to substantially and sustain ably reduce the prison
population to meet international minimum standards of detention. A Human Rights amendment and a 10 Year
Community Based Corrections Equality Plan amendment to Civil Rights statute
will help achieve the legal limit…856
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7 National Cemetery Organizations (NCO)
To
amend Chapter 7 National Cemeteries §271-296 and repeal Chapter 7a Private and
Commercial Cemeteries §298, free wills and trusts from obligatory registration with the
Court, set forth requirements for the Probate Courts to change their name to
the Justice of the Peace and improve death and estate statistics, third
draft. It can be estimated that
56,597,030 people died around the world in 2004 an average of 863 deaths per
100,000, 0.86% of the population. The preliminary number of deaths in the
United States for 2004 was estimated at 2,398,343, representing a decrease of
49,945 from the 2003 total. The
preliminary estimate of life expectancy at birth for the total population in
2004 reached a record high of 77.9 years. The leading cause of death was heart
disease, followed by cancer, medical malpractice, stroke, respiratory disease,
accident and diabetes. To process the
0.83% of the population that dies every year 0.05% of the population is
employed in the death care industry.
There were 23,015 death care service establishments with 164,823
employees, generating revenues of $12.6 billion, with a payroll of $3.5
billion, not including the manufacturers of caskets and funeral supplies. Per
death receipts for funeral services are estimated to total $4,166 for a burial
and $1,080 for a cremation on an average.
Federal regulation of the funeral industry is currently limited to the
National Cemeteries under the supervision of the Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs
and a prohibition of unfair and deceptive advertising on the part of the
funeral industry that must provide a general price list to consumers. Estate taxes are currently limited to those
estates valued over $3.5 million and national estate tax revenues are only $23
billion. This chapter seeks to improve
death and estate statistics, reduce the death rate and set up a degree program
for the Probate Court to free the mentally ill as a condition for changing
their name to Justice of the Peace…967
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8 Drug Regulation (DR)
To
amend Chapter 8 Gorgas Hospital §300-320 to reduce
demand for the 10 billion prescriptions and oppression that fuel the $1 trillion drug market with $600 billion in
global pharmaceutical sales and $400 billion in illicit drug sales, $160
billion and another $65 billion on illicit drug in the US alone, to transfer the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) Office of Diversion Control to the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and change its name to Drug Evaluation Agency (DEA), to re
name of the Substance Abuse Mental Health System Administration (SAMHSA) to
Social Work Administration (SWA), to transfer the Secretariat of the
International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) to the World Health Organization
(WHO), to remove Drugs from the name of the Office of Crime (OC), to give
Afghanistan 80% of the national and 75% of international opium quota until
opium demand from the war economy has subsided, to rewrite the Controlled
Substances Act, patent, and protection of human research subjects statute in
order to identify, isolate, control, inspect, prohibit and destroy the
pathogens used in bio-medical research, to commission a study of the drug
Schedule to identify and remove from circulation the pathogens that cause
serious mental illness and reschedule to Schedule III, to terminate the
automatically refilled military contracts under DEA Form 222 and repeal the
loophole in the statute that hypothetically causes PTSD and Gulf War Illness,
to provide for the regional Poison Control Centers to assist the federal
government to monitor the possession and use of all poisons and pathogens used
in bio-medical research laboratories, to inspect those laboratories and receive
reports from the public regarding abuse of disease pathogens, to stop doctors
from receiving kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, to divert pharmaceutical
political contributions to third party candidates, to eliminate mandatory
minimum sentencing and reduce sentences for illicit drug possession and
trafficking, to make drug addiction treatment safe and accessible, establish a
rational Type of classification for the Customs to control drugs and prohibit
pathogens. MIRROR form…1085
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9 Public Health Department (PHD)
To
amend Chapter 9 Hospitalization of
Mentally Ill Nationals Returned From Foreign Countries §321- §329. In the 20th century considerable
progress was made eradicating communicable diseases, in the 21st century
medical science must begin to communicate about the laboratory pathogens that
are theoretically the cause of the majority of non communicable diseases. To secure the people against the dangers of
the Public Health Service the Centers for Medicare, Medicaid & SCHIP (CMS)
shall change their name to National Health Insurance (NHI) and be transferred
with all other Mandatory Benefits Programs to the management of the Social
Security Administration (SSA). Children’s Health Insurance shall be financed with
100% of the proceeds of the Attorney General’s Master Tobacco Settlement. The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) shall change its name to Social Work Administration
(SWA). The Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) Office of Diversion Control shall change its name to the
Drug Evaluation Agency (DEA) and be transferred to the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). Whereupon the name
of DHHS may be changed to the Public Health Department (PHD) on the condition
that an Education Division (ED) to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR) be created to secure toxic laboratory supplies. To limit
medical costs by enabling patients to refuse to pay and be compensated for
abusive, involuntary, and/or unnecessary treatment and for the poor to gain
access to medical care all health institutions shall be required to employ
Ethics Committees. Internet medical records shall be confidential. Epidemiological statistics shall be improved. Medical residency rotations limited to less
than 60 hours a week. Payments to high paid specialists reduced and family
practice promoted. The abuse of
bio-medical research supplies are prohibited and tans-fat banned…1243
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10 Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
To
incorporate the contents of Chapter 1 Navy Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospital,
and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Others §1-40 as clients of the political lobby
established in Chapter 10 Armed Forces Retirement Home §400-435. Sections 400 and 435 are
original. The Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
houses an estimated 1,600 veterans at
the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home (USSAH) in Washington, D.C and the U.S.
Naval Home (USNH) in Gulfport, Mississippi.
The Naval Home was established in the Naval Hospital Act of Feb.
26, 1811, by Paul Hamilton of South Carolina, secretary of the Navy under
President James Madison. The charter was to provide a permanent asylum for old
and disabled naval officers, seamen, and Marines. The Naval Home was officially opened in 1834
and was known as the Naval Asylum until the name was changed to the Naval Home
in 1880. The Soldiers' Home was established in 1851, as an asylum for old and
disabled veterans. The armed forces retirement home is a treasured right
of veterans who have laid down their arms under Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions. AFRH statute settled the largest war reparations in history - $20
billion of the $33 Madrid conference for the reconstruction of Iraq under
common Article 1
of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights reaffirms the right of all
peoples to self-determination…1529
Title
24 CFR Housing and Urban Development
Urban
and community planning. At the end of 2006 there
were $13.3 trillion in US mortgage loans.
The
number of home sales is expected to dip from 6.48 million in 2006 to 6.29
million in 2007, a drop of 2.7 percent, after of high of 7.2 million in
2005. The
number of foreclosure filings rose from about 885,000 in 2005 to 1,259,118 in
2006, up 42 percent, one foreclosure filing for every 92 U.S. households. An estimate 15.6% of all sub-prime
loans originated since 1998 either have ended or will end in foreclosure and
the loss of homeownership. The median home price fell to $217,000, a drop of 0.3
percent from a year ago. To stimulate
the economy the federal government will need to invest in residential real
estate. It can be estimated that
3,000-5,000 emergency homeless shelters with 20 to 50 beds are needed to make
up for the loss of 115,000 beds between 1996 and 2005. To make progress towards the goal of closing
all state mental institutions and private psychiatric hospitals it is
recommended to push for around 500-1,000 new community mental health shelters
annually for 10 years to absorb the homeless inpatient population. There are
2.5 million admission to residential drug treatment annually it seems
reasonable to try to double the number of drug treatment facilities at a rate
of 1,000 facilities a year for 10 years.
The majority of the burden is on community corrections to purchase no
less than 25,000 houses a year towards a ten year goal of 2.5 million beds, and
24 hour staff to resident ratio of 3-8 per prisoner, 500,000 employees. Tenant landlord relations must be legislated
to eliminate third party interference.
Hospitals & Asylums was discovered in
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Hospitals & Asylums Manuscript © Christmas 24 December 2004, 11 August 2007, 14
December 2009
Thank
you for your patience, Tony Sanders, title24uscode@aol.com
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