John and Doves,
Here is the latest from Applied Digital .
Tommy Thompson is introducing this for both the USA and Great Britain.
Since Blair heads the EU at this time, it is a mere step for this to include all Europeans.
This September should be very interesting, with both the UN Summit taking place,
and the VeriChip going mainstream.
Will the VeriChip announcement take place while all the world leaders are convened in NYC ?
It should be noted that Tony Glover
---- who first released the Tommy Thompson September-plan for VeriChip ----
broke the story first in the Russian news on July 25. Sure seems to be going in a global direction.
Watching unto prayer,
Jim Goodrick
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2089.shtml
Excerpts : Fair educational use
Posted Online: August 24, 2005
The New Healthcare System
by Christopher S. Bentley
September 5, 2005 Issue
"Applied Digital wants millions of Americans to be implanted with an RFID chip for medical purposes, and the Frist-Clinton bill (S. 1262) would pave the way.
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson, who served in the Bush administration’s first term, recently joined the board of directors of Florida-based Applied Digital. Applied Digital is the owner of VeriChip, the company that specializes in making implantable radio frequency identification chips (RFID) for both people and pets.
On July 31, London’s The Business reported that Thompson “is putting the final touches to a plan that could result in US citizens having [an RFID] chip inserted under their skin.” Scott Silverman, CEO of Applied Digital, told WebMD Medical News on July 27 that “some 2,000 people worldwide are using” his company’s implants. “But,” the WebMD report noted, “soon he expects that millions of people will get VeriChip implants every year.” ............
Skeptics will dismiss Silverman’s optimistic business forecast as greatly exaggerated, and those with a natural distrust of polls will question the validity of the data. But putting that aside for a moment, consider the fact that Applied Digital is positioning itself to get some major help — from the federal government.
According to The Business report, “the RFID capsules would be linked to a computerized database being created by the US Department of Health to store and manage the nation’s health records.” Thompson said he “intends to publish the proposal in the next 50 days, by which time he plans to have had a VeriChip inserted in his arm.” The former HHS secretary is definitely positioned to use his past employment to help his new employer.
Conveniently, on June 16, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) introduced S. 1262, with its very benign-sounding title of “Health Technology to Enhance Quality Act of 2005.” During a press conference at George Washington University Hospital, Senator Clinton tidily summed up the nature of S. 1262: “This legislation marries technology and quality to create a seamless, efficient health care system for the 21st century.”
Senator Frist described it as “an interoperable national health information technology system.”The bipartisan duo proposed before the Senate “three concrete steps” to construct this “seamless” system. The first one would be to establish “standards for electronic medical records.” S. 1262 would codify into statute [ Ed: legalities] the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, an office already set up by President Bush in April 2004. The coordinator’s major duty would be, among other things, to “facilitate the adoption of a national system for the electronic exchange of health information.” This certainly looks like the same system mentioned by the July 31 London-based Business report.
Senator Clinton, whose efforts to nationalize healthcare were stymied in the 1990s, now has a capable, influential, and willing cosponsor whose conservative veneer is just the right spoonful of sugar to help this totalitarian socialist medicine go down.
If this socialist healthcare scheme is allowed to pass, and Applied Digital succeeds in partnering with government, then Americans will be seduced into accepting a “seamless” nationalized healthcare system. But those who participate will also end up with a medical ID implant that will undoubtedly morph into a mandatory national ID.
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_______________________NO CHIP FOR ME, I WANT TO BE FREE !
You can take it, sis can take it, Mom and Dad too;
Brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles and all the neighbors too;
VIPs and Popes and Presidents, Bosses, Kings, and thee;
But I will never ever take it ... I just want to be free !The 666 Mark is not for me,
I'm Heaven-bound for all eternity.
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/nochip.html