Yea, this was first introduced on March 21, 2010
The House passed both the Senate Health Care bill and the House Reconciliation Act H.R. 4872 on March 21, 2010. The Senate bill goes to the President for signing and the Reconciliation bill, HR4872, goes to the Senate for approval.
There are two items with dire consequences included in the Reconciliation bill. The first is mandatory RFID chip implants. The gist of the wording in the bill provides setting up a registry for collecting patient data, such as medical records, insurance claims, pharmacy data, etc. The wording in the bill leaves open any additional data collection as required. The timetable for implementation is within 3 years. The wording is very vague, but the only way the registry can be established with the data they plan on collecting is with everyone having the chip.
The second is establishing a National Health ID/Debit card with Smart chip/RFID technology, linked to Bank accounts for the purpose of ID verification as well as patient info, along with instant debit from Bank account to pay for co-pays, etc. The wording leaves open the option to use this concurrently with RFID chip implant. The timetable for implementation is within 2 years.
Here is H.R 4872: http://docs.house.gov/rules/hr4872/111_hr4872_reported.pdf
The RFID section is located on page 1013. In Table of Contents it is Subdivision C, Title V, Subtitle C- National medical device registry. You're looking for Class II implantable device. That's a RFID chip.
Here is FDA info on Class II: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Medica...onandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm072191.pdf
The National Health ID/Debit section is on page 57. In Table of Contents it is Subdivision A. Title I, Subtitle G- Early Investments. Further it is Sec 163, Administrative Simplification.
Like any technological advance, there are the many positive ways for it's application and there are ways it can be abused. Both should be noted and observed.
