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Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

By Jim Edwards | Oct 5, 2009

Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security ID.

As this presentation to investors makes clear, the chip and its database could form the basis of a new national identity database lined to Social Security and NationalCreditReport.com. The VeriMed Health Link homepage describes the chip:

… a tiny, passive microchip (the nation’s first and only microchip cleared for patient identification by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration) and a secure, private online database that links you to your personal health record. Your Health Link is always with you and cannot be lost or stolen.

That database can be accessed by doctors and nurses:

About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip is inserted just under the skin and contains only a unique, 16-digit identifier. The microchip itself does not contain any other data other than this unique electronic ID, nor does it contain any Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking capabilities. And unlike conventional forms of identification, the Health Link cannot be lost, stolen, misplaced, or counterfeited. It is safe, secure, reversible, and always with you.

But VeriChip’s ambitions don’t end there, as this diagram indicates:

(Click to enlarge.)

Yes, it shows your Health Link chip linked to Google, Microsoft, employers and insurers. The company also sees the VeriMed Health Link linked to your “identity security services,” through a separate VeriChip product, PositiveID. This slide show states:

PositiveID puts people in control of their personal health records and financial information, bridging the gap between secure medical records and identity security

PositiveID dovetails with Health Link:

Cross marketing opportunities: cross-sell the NationalCreditReport.com customer base the Health Link personal health record and vice-versa

Differentiates PositiveID as the only personal health record that offers identity theft protection

It’s a future in which your doctor tags you like a dog with a microchip that allows anyone with the right privileges to look at your medical records, credit history, social security number (see slide 6), and anything else that stems from that.

Suddenly, storing medical records on paper in locked cabinets inside a single doctor’s office starts to look like something we may not want to rush to give up.

Image: The VeriMed Health Link chip from VeriChip’s web page.

Jim Edwards, a former managing editor of Adweek, has covered drug marketing at Brandweek for four years, and is a former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's business and journalism schools. Follow him on Twitter or send him an email.

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    patrons99

    10/05/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    It?s quite clear that there is a full-scale assault underway by a consortium of multinational pharmaceutical concerns and ?innovative? chip manufacturers, such as Verichipcorp, upon the very integrity of our bodies. We should take note of the pace with which this literal invasion of our bodies is progressing. Seemingly with full government-backing in the form of FDA ?approvals?, there is really nothing between these so-called ?innovations? and their actual implementation. The final ingredient, which is lacking, at least for the present, are government mandates to force the large scale implantation of these devices into the bodies of the citizenry. There is nothing save for serious constitutional and ethical concerns to stop this vision of our future from becoming reality. We should all start planning for the day when our government comes knocking at our door giving us 20 seconds in which to comply with the first-generation of chip implants. Lest anyone have doubts, compliance will not be discretionary.

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    powderlyv

    10/06/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    The article just sounds so sci-fi and bizarre. Don't the people they hope to implant have a say in this?

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    F Moseley

    10/06/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social S

    The RFID Implant Microchip, allows many satanic possibilities,
    one of many is the inducement of alien movements of the body
    that is microchipped. Other possibilities include the use of
    Schapitz type mind control. I am sure that the list is endless, as
    more satanic uses are being developed every day.

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    BNET's Jim Edwards

    10/07/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    @powderlyv: The company thinks the chip can be used on people who arrive unconscious in the E.R.

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    h5mind

    10/11/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    Are folks really surprised at these government intrusions into our bodies and privacy, or are they being ironic? In case you didn't get the memo, we now live in the brave new world where you are no longer sovereign individuals with inalienable rights. The Constitution is, depending on which president you're quoting, either a "deeply flawed document" open to continuous re-interpetation(Obama), or simply a "blankety-blank piece of paper"(Bush) And you, my fellow citizens, are property of the federal government. You're collateral for an eye-popping multi-trillion debt to the international banks. Once you realize this, it's easy to see why so little consideration is given to individual freedom, privacy or deceny. Slaves have no rights. Think you own your home-- try not paying taxes and see how long that lasts. Or exercise your 1st or 2nd amendment rights (freedom of speech, gun ownership) without a permit and be introduced to your new cell mate. The microchip is not about safety, convenience or effciency-- it's about control.

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    microcarl@...

    10/11/09 | Report as spam

    C. Livingston

    The mandate to the forced implant will arrive very shortly after the ObamaCare scam takes hold.

    Once they have you, they'll be no escape.

    Does the number 666 mean anything? Does the "Mark Of The Beast" mean anything?

    This implant device is nothing more then the enumeration of the "Mark Of The Beast!"

    To be honest, I simply can't believe that so many people are so unaware! Though, more in terms of science fiction, we were talking about this technology back in the late 1960s... Now the fiction is becoming reality.

    Your choice is two... You can give in and take the "Mark Of The Beast" and function in Satin's end-time Socialist/Marxist society, or you can reject the "Mark Of The Beast" and become an outcast to the New World Order.

    Me, I'll see you in the mountains.

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    USAPAtriot1966

    10/11/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    Having served as a soldier in the United States Army for over twenty years and having served in civilian law enforcement of five years. I feel that I need to make aware of how healthcare reform can be futuristically applied in the suppression, infringement and suspension of our constitutional rights and civil liberties.

    Healthcare reform threatens our democracy as a form of enslaving its citizen as we will become even more sub servant to the government. (An apparent goal of the President Barak Hussein Obama and his totalitarian regime, composed members of his administration whom that are appointed and unofficial representatives of self or corporate interest and other elected politicians whom have influence of bill creation and wordage.)

    Healthcare reform bill is over 1200 pages in its current form and will grow larger and extensively. Only one can imagine how large this healthcare will be in the future. The current tax code has over 63,000 pages. This healthcare reform of government run healthcare could and will possibly go beyond that. There will be enough management and professional jobs for the current politicians of all 435 members of congress and 100 senators on this healthcare reform and enough room for the nepotism and cronyism to continue. The bureaucracy that it will create wills nearly double the size of the current federal government. Membership into a union will be mandatory and expand their roll numbers limiting bidding contracts and any type of outside labor force.

    Almost immediately the politicians will change the rules as far as who gets taxed to pay for healthcare. Currently it claims incomes over 250,000 dollars will change almost immediately and in time require everyone or every family member into a single payer system or into a co-operative. If the co-operative is chosen by congress it will be federally influenced through politically appointments for chairmanship, a board of directors and its members through mandates and other financial means. Any type of healthcare reform or bill passed this year will be changed with amendments and reconciliations.

    IN THE FUTURE: The government will require every citizen-human (legal or illegal) onto a government run program. There will be no longer a need for Medi-care, Medicaid, Veteran Affairs Administration or Indian Health Services clinics, private or charity hospitals. These will be closed under a ?fairness-doctrine? that will be legislated and for the purpose of current and future budget constraints. Directives from a Health and Human Service Committee will be handed down to these places as they will not conform to ?their model? of a socialized healthcare place and practices. Any existence of private practices of free enterprise will not be able to compete. (Example: Wal-mart opens a Supercenter and knocks out its competition as the government monopolizes the healthcare system and places in a welfare system only to be honored at their convenient location.)

    General medical doctors, private physicians and professionals providing government healthcare will decide to ?opt-out? due to financial hardships that will be endured as their services will not be reimbursed fairly by the government bureaucrats whom will use given mathematical equations, guided tables of calculations and a slow payment of fees rendered or reimbursement by the private healthcare facility will increase the hardship. Doctor and patient relations will most likely deteoriate as it will also be a major factor in the decision to not accept new patients or government enrollment. If anyone has dealt with the government knows of all the paperwork that will be required for enrollment and keeping within their system. Massive closing of clinics and hospitals will likely occur. The final result will be ?pooling? together into one common mass.

    This healthcare reform will violate our 4th Amendment rights by the right to privacy. The government will have a need to know what property we have, inherited, gifted or worked for, such as a Means Statement to be completed by the patient or guardian thereof. The statement will be required for the enrollment onto healthcare, questioning: income, joint incomes, real estate, stocks, bonds, monies in savings, livestock, square footage of living space, rental properties, personal assets and etc.

    With today?s and futuristic technology an implantation of a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) chip will be required. Where your basic medical, personal and financial transactions will originate from an inserted or medically placed chip under your skin. The government will know where you are and where your family is at all times, twenty four hours a day of every minute from near conception to death. You could be taxed just by how much oxygen you breathe- dioxide is exhaled creating and calculating your carbon imprint onto the environment. Once pregnant you and your spouse will pay dearly and heavily.

    Once enrolled the government can and will dictate how much and what to eat and drink by taxation and the use of the RFID chip. If you or your family?s current diet is healthy or not healthy and may require its citizens to eat a specific diet for the good of the self health, humanity and its labor force. They can and will charge you additional taxes for the amount of consumption of calories, carbohydrates, fatty acids and other ingredients. Such as additional taxes on alcoholic items, beverages, soda, meats, poultry, cigarette and tobacco, junk food and candies. The list of additionally taxed items will grow larger.

    Due taxes related to the mandatory declaration of firearms possession and ownership will be required and will infringe on our 2nd amendment rights. They will know what model, caliber and serial number of the firearms. They will keep track of how many rounds of ammunition you have. Where they are stored and may require further licenses for justification. Mandated criminal, credit and moral background investigations, mental and physical checks will be required for ownership, again violating your right to privacy and infringing on your liberties. You will not be able to own or carry a firearm if the tests or background investigations return as negative. You will not have the possibility or affordability to face your accuser as you will be ordered to comply with given statutes and policy directives. Transfer of firearms will not be allowed and the surrender of firearms and licenses to authorities will be imminent.

    Enrollment in the program will require immunizations and can implement eugenics and euthanasia, forced sterilization and abortions could happen as many scientists are on the presidential advisory committees and laying the framework for the healthcare legislation.

    If you are convicted of a crime or if you stand accused of committing a crime the RFID chip can be a powerful tool in law enforcement. Punishment can be initiated or extended and fines that are court ordered can be extracted immediately. There will be no place for a criminal or an accused criminal to hide from the judicial branch, any members of law enforcement community and various levels of government officials.

    Upon the RFID chip implant you will be on a satellite grid co-ordinate tracking system or global positioning system (GPS), closed circuit cameras and an expansive system of fiber optics computer/data networks. The year 2010 census will play a large part in tracking its citizens as it is the beginning of placing people and families onto a pinpointed grid coordinate to their front doorstep by use of GPS methods.

    Newly designed congressional and senatorial districts will be laid out and implemented, to keep the ones in power from failing to get re-elected by using race, gender, trends, past voting records and voter popularity. I suspect more electronic voting machines will also be indoctrinated as they have been proven to be manipulated. The citizens of this country will find themselves upon lists for speaking out against the politicians and the elitists. You will be labeled a radical from public speaking from casual conversation to computer blogs.

    The 1st amendment is going away and evaporating under this totalitarian regime in the White House. Be wary of your religious and political beliefs, labeling and names such as: alarmist, anti-gay, fear monger, a birther, a liar, a possible terrorist, anti-conformist and many other labels that threaten their existence in their quest for power and a vast amount of wealth that can be made by lobbying, providing services, pharmaceuticals and supplies into this new healthcare creation.

    This bill is looking as the initiation and revisions of the income tax, the establishment of the Internal Revenue Service and the privatization of the Federal Reserve in 1913. Taxes will not be kept here in the United States but will be required to the Council of Foreign Relations, International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization as the United States government will sign onto the United Nations future health pacts and agreements to provide food subsidies and medical treatment to poorer nations, enroll their citizens and masses onto a worldwide/international healthcare. We will no longer be a sovereign nation and the constitution/Bill of Rights will be useless or nonexistent, in its current form.

    I did not cover common alleged complaints or problems of future healthcare. Such as rationing, long lists, counseling for the terminally ill or near death, the overall amount of funding into providing healthcare, our current and projected national debt; use of other industrialized nations polls or comparison to our current system, as it was of my hope to keep this opinion based on the intrusion and government infringement of our basic constitutional rights.

    I beg for all of the citizens and our elected officials, not to give up their liberties in place of some promised security. Do not let the government have this much control. A government with added legislative requirements for the admiration of having Orwellian technology and its vision of having turning America into a Utopian society is bound to become oppressive onto its citizens. This healthcare is nothing but a disguise as an additional tax and a way for the government to control its populace.

    THIS FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE REFORM AND ITS MANDATORY REQUIRMENTS OF PARTICIPATION WILL DESTROY AMERICA IF THE GOVERNMENT GETS INVOLVED IN OUR DAILY LIVES.

    IT IS A HOODWINK FOR SOCIALISM!

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    messing

    10/28/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    Whew! I think you should take some Lomotil and lie down for a while!

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    jefftrout

    11/17/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    this is a very bad slippery slope that is in disguise as a good thing. people need to stop thinking that 'pushing the envelope' is a good thing.

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    matilda!

    11/21/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security

    Call or write Novartis, Proteus, VeriChip, and your local representatives to say you most vigorously oppose this idea. If necessary, call from a pay phone, if they still exist, and send anonymous letters. Anonymous parties can and should protest.

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