Good Intentions

Your health information will never be private again. Hidden in the healthcare bill we find a provision for the implantation of RFID chips. How long will it be before monitoring what you eat in your own home becomes a national healthcare crisis requiring government surveillance?  Hope and Change, baby!

Required RFID implanted chip

Sec. 2521, Pg. 1000 – The government will establish a National Medical Device Registry. 

What does a National Medical Device Registry mean?

National Medical Device Registry from H.R. 3200 [Healthcare Bill], pages 1001-1008:

(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that— ‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; ‘‘(B)and is— ‘‘(i) a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.”

Then on page 1004 it describes what the term “data” means in paragraph 1,

section B:

‘‘(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to information respecting a device described in paragraph (1), including claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary”

What exactly is a class II device that is implantable? Approved by the FDA, a class II implantable device is an “implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient identification and health information.” The purpose of a class II device is to collect data in medical patients such as “claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.”

See it for yourself:http://www.fda. gov/downloads/ MedicalDevices/ DeviceRegulation andGuidance/ GuidanceDocument s/ucm072191. pdf

This new law – when fully implemented – provides the framework for making the United States the first nation in the world to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.

Don’t believe it? Look it up yourself. Healthcare Bill H.R. 3200: 

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/AAHCA09001xml.pdf

Pages 1001-1008 “National Medical Device Registry” section.

Page 1006 “to be enacted within 36 months upon passage”

Page 503 “… medical device surveillance”

Why would the government use the word “surveillance” when referring to citizens? The definition of “surveillance” is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a secret manner. The root of the word [French] means to “watch over.”

In theory, the intent to streamline healthcare and to eliminate fraud via “health chips” seems right. But, to have the world’s lone superpower (America, for now) mandate (page 1006) a device to be IMPLANTED is scary!

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/105079

Coverage under Obamacare will require an implantable microchip?

The healthcare bill has some good things but at what cost. The whole issue of cost is what has kept most people out of the insurance market in the first place. This bill does nothing to address cost and adds millions more to a broken system.  Spending will skyrocket eventually. The ultimate effect will be either rationing (See Canada, UK, etc.), more tax increases, and/or massive debt.  


So, at some point we will be left with the dilemma of sacrificing either the quality of care we are accustomed to or the economic opportunity of our children.  We might feel better about the "moral implications" in the short run, but in the the long run, the bill will eventually come due and someone will have to pay. 


And, let's not forget about the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security.  We're talking tens of trillions of debt that has to be paid back with those two programs alone.  


Scary times.