“Why Can’t the GOP put pressure on those three senators. I don’t understand anything anymore.”
Over time, most governments in the history of civilization have been destroyed by external and/or internal enemies.
“How to Identify Legal Plunder”...
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
“Legal Plunder Has Many Names”...
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1809
“. . . the bill calls for all medical treatments to be tracked electronically by a new federal bureaucracy known as the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is administering what the federal government considers appropriate and cost effective health care.”
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Got that? Again: “ . . . medical treatments to be tracked electronically. . . .”
Got it? Good.
I used to laugh at the tinfoil helmet army. More and more I laugh less and less. From another thead:
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Everyone got the part in the bill and again in last night’s infomercial about the “electronic medical records, right?
Hmmm. . . . “Chips and triage.” Sounds like a new appetizer at Applebees’s. (/s)
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“A Survey of RFID in
the Medical Industry
With Emphasis on Applications to
Surgery and Surgical Devices
Mike Mowry
June 9, 2008
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3.2.1 The Need for Tracking within Hospitals
There are several compelling reasons to use RFID technology to track doctors, nurses and
patients inside hospitals. By tracking doctors on a real time basis, a hospital can ensure that
there is always a sufficient number of doctors in any given area of a hospital to take care of
potential emergencies. Although there are usually far more nurses than doctors and the above
justification does not likely apply to nurses, it is still equally justifiable to track nurses. A primary
need for this information is in the event of an infectious disease outbreak. For instance, RFID
tracking of healthcare personnel became an important tool in fighting the outbreak of SARS in
eastern Asia in 2003 [2]. In hospitals in which all staff was tracked using RFID, all staff
members who came into close contact with a SARS patient were able to be quickly identified
and appropriately treated [2].
Privacy concerns may potentially make it more difficult to justify using RFID to track patients, but
there can certainly be some very real benefits to such tracking. For instance, if every patient in
a hospital wears an RFID tag, his/her medical records can be placed in a central database
which could be accessed by any authorized doctor or nurse. Additionally, a hospital that tags its
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patients could be alerted if a patient wanders into a potentially dangerous area. Furthermore,
RFID tagging of patients could ensure that elderly patients do not wander away from a facility
and that infants are not removed from a hospital without authorization. “
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http://www.winmec.ucla.edu/rfid/course/2008s/Final_project_Mike_Mowry.pdf
and
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleprint/2536/-1/1
and
http://www.verichipcorp.com/news/1153351495