Obama health plan poses danger to American freedoms!

WASHINGTON - January 13, 2009 - Soon to take the oath as President, Barack Obama has promised a massive change to “modernize health care by making all health records standardized and electronic.”

Part of his ambitious health care program will be the computerizing of medical records of all Americans in order to make the health care process more cost-effective.

But even proponents of Obama's plan have mentioned that ensuring the privacy of patients' records in a nationalized computer network will be tricky. There are obvious concerns about hackers and system failures. Also, new online health record systems, such as Google Health, are not currently subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the national health privacy law.

“This is especially true when you consider the advocates of implementing a program using so-called ‘v-chips’ inserted into people and containing all their medical information. No one has said how much information will be contained in those implants. DNA? AIDS information?” asks political strategist Mike Baker.

“With so much information already being compromised within government security systems, how can Obama possibly promise confidentiality of such records?” he asks.

Although in five years the VeriChip Corp. - the U.S. company creating microchip implants - has yet to turn a profit, it has been investing heavily - up to $8 million a year - to create new markets. The company's executives have said their present push is the tagging of "high-risk" patients - diabetics and people with heart conditions or Alzheimer's disease.

In a medical emergency, hospital staff could wave a reader over a patient's arm, get an ID number, and then, via the Internet, enter a company database and pull up the person's identity and medical history.

To doctors, a "starter kit" - complete with 10 hypodermic syringes, 10 VeriChips and a reader - costs $1,400, according to information on the Verichip web site. To patients, a microchip implant means a $200, out-of-pocket expense to their physician. Presently, chip implants aren't covered by private healthcare insurance companies, or by Medicare and Medicaid.

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“This system will be implemented, sooner or later, since it will be part of the mechanism to control the people.

“First, control all the medical records. Next, control access to the records by use of a card containing an RFID chip. After enough folks lose, forget, or for whatever reason, show up at the emergency room without their card, the government will require that the RFID chips be implanted in peoples' bodies. No implanted chip, no health care.

“Another step towards the mark of the beast.”


--Pastor Tom Guest