Dear friend of liberty,
Are we going to get what we don't want?
We don't want the federal government to assign every person a medical identification number (like the Social Security number) so bureaucrats can track and collect our personal medical information and create a
massive national database on us. According to a recent Gallup survey, 91% of Americans agree with us.
If 91% of Americans don't want a national I.D. number, how can it happen?
This goes back to the infamous 1993 Clinton health care proposal that was so soundly rejected by the American people. What believers in big government could not do in that all-encompassing national health care scheme is instead being done incrementally, one part at a time. The key to government control of your health care choices is this national medical identifier. Without that number, bureaucrats can't track the medications and treatments you take, what lifestyle choices you make, what genetic factors you have inherited, and they can't project your likely lifetime demand on health-care resources.
The national medical I.D. that was pronounced dead-on-arrival in 1993 came back to life in 1996 under the guise of the innocent-sound Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (H.I.P.A.A.)...and Congress fell for it.
That's right, H.I.P.A.A. was passed and signed into law, and tucked away in that legislation was the all-important language mandating assignment of a unique, medical identification number to every American.
The only reason you haven't already been assigned a medical I.D. number and forced to use it for every health-related activity is that Congress has withheld funding. In June, Representative Ron Paul (a physician with over 30 years in private practice) introduced and had passed an amendment to continue to withhold funding. Unfortunately, that amendment is now in jeopardy in a conference committee. The Liberty Committee stopped the national I.D. card in just such a conference committee in 1999. Now, in the year 2000, we must hold off the implementation of the national medical identifier the same way.
Remember, as this Congress winds down, anything is possible. Please go to http://www.thelibertycommittee.org to contact your U.S. representative and your two U.S. senators and let them know you are aware and watching what they do. Urge them to keep the Paul amendment in the final version of the Labor-H.H.S.-Education appropriations bill (H.R. 4577). Please do this now so we don't get what we don't want tomorrow.
Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
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