Claim: Health care reform legislation passed by Congress requires that patients be implanted with microchips.
Example:[Collected via e-mail, March 2010]
Seems people will be getting more than they bargained for in this new health care bill.
The Obama health care bill under Sec. 2521, page 1,000 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 1,001-1,008:
(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.
A "class II device that is implantable?"
Then on page 1,004 it describes what the term "data" means in paragraph 1,section B:"(B) In this paragraph, the term 'data' refers to in formation 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."
Approved by the FDA, a class II implantable device is a "implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information."
This sort of device would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option. With the reform of the private insurance companies, who charge outrageous rates, many people will switch their coverage to a more affordable insurance plan. This means the number of people who choose the public option will increase. This also means the number of people chipped will be plentiful as well. The adults who choose to have a chip implanted are the lucky (yes, lucky if you're a Govt Control Libtard) ones in this case. Children who are "born in the United States who at the time of birth is not otherwise covered under acceptable coverage" will be qualified and placed into the CHIP or Children's Health Insurance Program (what a convenient name). With a name like CHIP it would seem consistent to have the chip implanted into a child. Children conceived by parents who are already covered under the public option will more than likely be implanted with a chip by the consent of the parent. Eventually everyone will be implanted with a chip. And with the price and coverage of the public option being so competitive with the private companies, the private company may not survive.
Origins: "Big Brother" rumors (often linked to the "mark of the beast" referenced in
Revelation 13:16-18) warning that the government will ultimately require all citizens to be implanted with microchips have been around just about as long as microchips have, and specific claims that health care reform legislation will require such implantations date to the Clinton administration. So, the warning reproduced above — that health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 2010 would require that "this sort of
device be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option" — is nothing new under the sun. This warning is also just as false as all such previous rumors, a combination of someone's using inapplicable source material and also misunderstanding the meaning of the information contained within that source.
First off, the page numbers and language referenced in the example above did not come from HR 3590, the version of the health care bill actually passed by Congress (nor in any of the reconciliation bills passed afterwards). They were taken from HR 3200, an earlier, House version of health care reform legislation that was never passed by Congress. Therefore, passages cited from HR 3200 are irrelevant, as that bill was never signed into law.
Second, even the now-irrelevant language of the unpassed HR 3200 (and similar language in the passed bill, HR 3590) did not mandate that anyone be implanted with any type of microchip or device, for any reason. The passages quoted above reference a section which simply calls for the creation of a registry that would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to collect data about medical devices "used in or on a patient" — including devices which patients consent to have implanted in them during surgery, such as pacemakers — for purposes such as tracking the effectiveness of such devices and facilitating the distribution of manufacturer recall notices.
