*Life With Big Brother........
US National Healthcare Will Require Implanted Big Brother National RFID
Chips *
Written by Timothy Baldwin
Saturday, 27 March 2010 07:32
Now that the healthcare bill has passed and been signed into law, one
must inquire: How will the federal government keep track of the millions
of persons in America now (supposedly) required to operate according to
the federal government's healthcare program?
Now that the federal government is responsible to ensure that millions
of people's health concerns are treated or eliminated, how will the
federal government distribute, execute, and ration its resources paid
for by tax dollars? Now that the federal government has a vested
interest in the health of hundreds of millions of Americans, how will
they ensure that the system itself can be maintained by the government?
Identifying the means and methods by which the government will
accomplish their task is less than speculative. Though the legislation
itself does not mandate this technology to be used, as we reported five
years ago, the implantation of Radio Frequency Identification chips
(RFID) into all persons within the government's healthcare system for
purposes of "prevention, detection and treatment of diseases" is a
primary objective of a number of government officials and industry
proponents. Whether or not they will be successful in doing so remains
to be seen.
RFID Chip
What is the RFID chip? It is a small electronic computer device placed
into the skin of a person that can be used for identification, tracking,
information storage and interfacing with external sources, such as for
financial, business, commercial, governmental, educational, and medical
institutions. In other words, an RFID can be utilized for every area of
life.
Many legitimate and natural questions have been raised about RFID chips,
like: What are the societal risks of the RFID chip? What are the
foreseeable or likely governmental abuses? How does its implementation
relate to the principles of freedom in a Constitutional Republic? Will I
be able to maintain my rights of privacy and other liberties if I have
an RFID implanted in my skin for societal and governmental purposes? As
we will show, the answers are very relevant, because it is known that
the federal government will likely mandate that these RFID chips be
implanted into all persons in America.
The German IT industry group BITKOM recently conducted a survey that
found that one out of four Germans would willingly, without force of
law, have a RFID chip placed inside their skin for societal and
governmental purposes. Perhaps those in the United States are not much
different. The idea of a microchip being implanted into your body for
these purposes has been around for several years and is only becoming
more popular and accepted.
Advocates for RFID for Societal and Government Purposes
Some of the most well-known and widely listened to news commentators and
political leaders have advocated the use of RFID chips for societal and
government purposes. Andy Rooney, news commentator on CBS's 60 Minutes,
said on February 10, 2002: "Something has to change. They have to find a
better way to identify the bad guys or the rest of us are gonna' stay
home and watch the world go by on television.... We need some system for
permanently identifying safe people.... I wouldn't mind having something
planted permanently in my arm that would identify me.''
While interviewing Scott Silverman (Applied Digital CEO), Sean Hannity
said on October 24, 2008: "[Parents are saying:] we can't even allow our
kids to play in the front yard. Is there anything - technologically
speaking - that [parents] can do that can help the situation, like a
kidnapping. Is there, for example, a microchip...we can use for our
kids?" In the interview, Silverman describes a PLD, which is an acronym
for "Personal Locating Device," which is an RFID chip. This PLD is to be
implanted into the body of the "child or someone you are interested in
tracking."
While Hannity initially presents the RFID's use into the context of
"protecting children from being kidnapped," Silverman quickly admits the
multi-function purpose of the RFID: "It is the first implantable
microchip for humans that has multiple security, financial and
healthcare applications." Sean Hannity's response: "I love this idea,
Scott." Security, financial, and healthcare: These are the vast
categories of use which would encompass all of human life and activity
in America.
Three years earlier, Silverman already outlined his ambitions for
revolutionizing healthcare in the United States. A July 25, 2005 WebMD
article opened with this bold query: "They're here. They have FDA
approval. But are Americans ready to get chipped?"
According to WebMD, Silverman offered the following statistics as
support for his company's technology in relation to medical care:
"When we first announced VeriChip, a network poll asked people if they
would put one in their bodies," Silverman tells WebMD. "Only 9% said
yes. After FDA approval, 19% said yes. When former HHS Secretary Tommy
Thompson joined our board, the rate went up to 33%. But our own study
shows that if you ask people whether they would have a VeriChip implant
to identify their medical records in case of an emergency, the positive
response goes to 80%."
WebMD concluded its report with this unsettling thought: "... Silverman
says, some 2,000 people worldwide are using them for medical or security
purposes. But soon he expects that millions of people will get VeriChip
implants every year."
On July 31, 2005, in an articled titled "'Health Chips' Could Help
Patients in US," The Business reported: "President Bush's former health
secretary Tommy Thompson is putting the final touches to a plan that
could result in US citizens having a radio frequency identification
(RFID) chip inserted under their skin." Thompson's purpose in doing so?
According to The Business: "The RFID capsules would be linked to a
computerised database being created by the US Department of Health to
store and manage the nation's health records."
Two months before these scattered news reports made less-than-noticed
headlines, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senator
Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) introduced S. 1262, the "Health Technology to
Enhance Quality Act of 2005." During a press conference at George
Washington University Hospital, Senator Clinton stated: "This
legislation marries technology and quality to create a seamless,
efficient health care system for the 21st century." Senator Frist
characterized it as "an interoperable national health information
technology system." The only way to have an interoperable information
system is to have a unique identifier for each person in the system,
which can't be altered, lost, stolen, or tampered with. In 2005, Clinton
and her allies sought to lay the technological infrastructure for just
such a system. Now that health care has been nationalized, why would
they approach things any differently?
So, will the "common person" in America accept the implantation of an
RFID for societal and government purposes? Some already are. Daniel
Hickey, a retired Navy Commander, expresses his of-course-attitude when
interviewed by Channel 5, WPTZ news: "They've been putting them into
dogs and cats for years. It's about time they put them into human
beings." Perhaps like Germany, the numbers of those who accept this idea
in America will only continue to grow.
Plans for RFID Chips for Healthcare
The facts already establish that certain infrastructure in America is
being implemented to incorporate the use and application of the RFID
chip. Today, hospitals throughout America are already implementing RFID
technology and have begun implanting RFID chips into their patients for
medical purposes, such as those who suffer from Alzheimer.
Openly, "a number of U.S. hospitals have begun implanting patients with
RFID tags and using RFID systems, usually for workflow and inventory
management." There are various groups that openly advocate for the use
of RFID chips for all medical patients. As a result of this movement,
many predict that the investment value of RFID technology will increase
exponentially and dramatically, making many people very rich.
Even "the Department of Homeland Security has indicated it likes the
concept of RFID chips," CNN reported several years ago in an article
about the Real ID Act. For what purpose does Homeland Security like RFID
chips to be implanted into people's skin? You name it. The same CNN
report also noted that the Real ID Act required that "the IDs must
include a 'common machine-readable technology' that must meet
requirements set out by the Department of Homeland Security." - which
could very well have meant RFID chips, though as the article pointed
out, other possibilities could have included magnetic strips or enhanced
bar codes. The Real ID Act requirements were derailed by a firestorm of
resistance from the states. But there is, without question, a push by
the private industry, investors, and the federal government to accept
and (as time will tell) force this type of technology for "security,
financial and healthcare" purposes.
Pre-Obama Nationalization of Healthcare and Use of RFID
What few people know is that the federal government has been making
attempts to national the healthcare system for years, relating back to
the Clinton administration's push to create a National Identification
for medical purposes, and which continued during the Bush administration.
To effectuate a national healthcare system, the federal government
advances the use of RFID technology to be used in each medical patient
for healthcare purposes. More than just for the treatment of the
patient, the federal government proposes a "nationwide electronic health
care information network for research and disease prevention."
Without equivocation, on October 19, 1992, Health and Human Services
(HHS) Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, said: "It is our intention to act on
our own and with the private sector in every area where we have
authority to bring the new electronic network into being." It was this
same "electronic network" of healthcare that was advanced by G.W. Bush
during his administration: "Strengthening the health care safety net is
a necessary part of improving American's access to care."
To the federal government, the purpose of creating a nationalized
electronic safety network was to "research to improve the prevention,
detection and treatment of diseases." As became law under the Medicare
Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, the federal
government recognized their role in "disease management programs"
through their healthcare safety network. Then, one year after the FDA
approved the full use of the RFID chips in humans, by executive order in
2005, G.W. Bush ordered HHS "to create a nationwide interoperable health
information technology infrastructure."
In conjunction with and to the end of creating a nationwide health
information infrastructure, HHS is to advance "the development,
adoption, and implementation of health information technology standards
nationally through collaboration among public and private interests that
are consistent with current efforts of the Federal Government [for the
prevention, detection and treatment of diseases]." This collaboration
with public and private interests easily identifies the method by which
this national safety network system will be effectuated: RFID technology.
Some of the most highly influential medical groups and organizations
propose not only that the private industry utilize RFID technology, but
also that the federal government use its "policy-making" power to
advance its use of an electronic healthcare safety network and to
abandon the old methods. In short, each patient would and should be
required to possess an RFID chip before getting medical treatment.
The New Healthcare Application
Today, the federal government has more motivation and incentive than
ever to create and mandate a national safety network system. They have
been working on it for 20 years or more, but its reality is with us
today. The federal government now has the responsibility and power to
control much (if not all) of the regulations and systems used in the
medical industry, including how patients will be identified, processed,
and treated through the system. Its vested interest in the entire
medical industry and in the cost of healthcare for each person will
undoubtedly create a system of control upon the lives of those within
its system.
To do this, facts reveal that the federal government will utilize RFID
chip technology and will require every person within the healthcare
system to receive this chip into their bodies. For some Americans, this
may be acceptable, just as it is for one out of four persons in Germany.
For others Americans, this is going to be a serious and fundamental line
in the sand.
Consequently, these questions must be asked. Who will submit? Who will
resist? What will the states do to protect their citizens from these
mandates? What will the states do to require their citizens to comply
with these mandates? What will the individual do to receive medical
treatment who does not take this chip? Where will the individual go to
receive quality medical treatment if all medical facilities require that
you have this RFID chip? What penalties will be imposed upon those who
do not take this chip?
These are all questions which must be answered and realized, because
inevitably, the federal government will do all that it can to implement
a RFID chip system.
SOURCE: The New American
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