Published by El Nuevo Herald on July 23, 2012
In the last few months has been circulating on the Internet what appeared to be an apocalyptic version of health care reform, recently approved by the Supreme Court. This cyberspace message, along with hundreds of interrelated rumors, flooded network concerning the possible adoption of a bill known as HR3200.
According to these rumors spread, health care reform known as ObamaCare enacted mandatory implanting into the human body of biocompatible glass capsule length of 11.5 mm, slightly larger than a grain of rice. This capsule known as Verichip Micro Transponder would be implanted in the hand of patients with all medical information required by insurance and healthcare institutions, such as current conditions and medication used, as well as age, geographic location and way of contacting the patient.
Of course, this assumption implant in the human body generated a number of comments carried by the opponents to health care reform. From the political point of view it was a way to control the population since information contained in the capsule reveal party affiliation, bank accounts and other important personal data. From the religious point of view was probably the mark of the beast, as written in the chapter of the book of revelations 13:16.18. Even still people talks about the March 23, 2013, as the date on which this implementation will be legally required.
Nothing is further from the truth. The proposal HR3200 was never passed by Congress and therefore was never made into law. Instead HR4872 Act was passed on 17 March 2010. Neither the law nor approved proposal contemplated that a microchip or any device will be implanted in the human body for any reason. Just what they did, was create a National Medical Device Registry that allows the Department of Health statistics keep medical devices used "in or on" a patient, such as a cardiac pacemaker.
As we can see, in spite of all the attempts made by different sectors to defeat ObamaCare, this law is a reality and will be in full force in 2014. It was time that the U.S. adopt universal health insurance as exists in most industrialized countries.
BENJAMIN F. DeYURRE
Economist and journalist.
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