American Babies Are Next
Kent Snyder--The Liberty Committee
"Little Beth Atkinson's birth – at three minutes past midnight yesterday – made medical history. Beth, who came into the world at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, became the first baby in the country to be given an NHS ‘lifelong’ identification number. The unique nine-digit reference number will stay with Beth for the rest of her life...." October 30, 2002/The Journal/United Kingdom.
Australia will also "provide a single, national database of patient health information" as reported by Kelley Mills of News Interactive on October 8, 2002.
The practice has started with "branding" U.K. babies with a universal, government-mandated
number (with Australia to follow), and unless we act today...American babies will be next! This isn’t some far-in-the-future possibility. It will soon be a reality. The law is already on the books here in the U.S.
In fact, "branding" new-born American babies would be taking place today if it weren’t for the work of Congressman Ron Paul and thousands of Liberty Committee activists during the last four years.
With your help, Congressman Paul, a practicing obstetrician for over 30 years, got legislation passed each of the last four years to temporarily stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from issuing every American a “unique health identifier” (patient tracking number). Dr. Paul’s legislation was attached to the last four annual Labor/Health and Human Services appropriations bills and is attached to the pending 2003 omnibus appropriations bill that Congress will finalize within a matter of days.
But the health care industry and big-government fanatics are getting tired of us stopping the "unique health identifier." They don’t want their plan to number and track every American to be delayed any longer, by us or anyone else.
Their plan for us is the gradual implementation of the 1992 Clinton health care plan: Hillary Care. You might have forgotten about Hillary Care. You might even have thought Hillary Care was dead. But it’s alive and well and is being given to us in small doses instead of the original mega-dose.
What is Hillary Care? It is the complete management, administration and distribution of health care in the United States -- medical record keeping, payment systems and the provisioning of medical care itself – by federal bureaucrats.
Assigning every American a “unique health identifier” is necessary for Hillary Care’s new, centralized, medical database to work. Here is how it will likely be implemented:
1) New-born babies will be assigned this new federal number (as is done now in the United Kingdom and soon to be in Australia).
2) Senior Americans will be assigned a number when they first apply for Medicare.
3) The rest of us will then get our number.
The health care industry and lovers of big government want Hillary Care and they know they can’t have it without assigning every American this new government tracking number. During the next several days, they will have a prime opportunity to beat us.
Good News Last night, the U.S. Senate approved the omnibus appropriations bill containing Congressman Ron Paul’s moratorium that will stop Hillary Care’s new federal “unique health identifier” for another year.
Bad News The bill now goes to a House/Senate conference committee early next week for further work. It is in this committee, where Dr. Paul’s moratorium can be removed…and we won’t know who did it. Why? There is no record of the conference committee’s actions.
We’ve suffered this fate before...
Good News Last year, the House passed an appropriations bill which contained Congressman Ron Paul’s provision opposing the United Nations’ International Criminal Court.
Bad News The bill then went to a House/Senate conference committee where Dr. Paul’s anti-UN/ICC provision was stripped away...and we don’t know to this day who did it.
We are preparing for the worst. Hillary Clinton and her big-government cronies, along with a team of high-paid lobbyists for the health care industry, want to quietly remove Congressman Paul’s moratorium in the House/Senate conference committee next week…so we must fight them yet again.
But the fight is becoming a true “David vs. Goliath” and we need your help today.
We are fighting the largest industry in America (larger than the defense industry) We are fighting the politicians of both parties who feed from the establishment health care lobby. We are fighting the entrenched and faceless, government bureaucrats who want government to grow because they receive their livelihood from government programs and projects…and, We are even fighting the United Nations.
The United Nations? Yes, because the World Health Organization wants this numbering system to be worldwide. It started in the United Kingdom and it will soon be picked up in the United States with other countries to follow.
American babies are next…then senior Americans…then the rest of us.
We’ve fought off the Hillary Care “unique health identifier” for the last four years, but the battle from here on out will be much more difficult. The United Kingdom has already given up. The United Nations World Health Organization, the health-care industry and big-government politicians, such as Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy are preparing to beat us this time.
Your extra help is our only hope to meet the extra expense of this emergency. We must focus public opinion on the conference committee. Time is not on our side. Please contribute $25 or $50 or whatever you can spare now, while this important matter has your attention.
To make your donation, go to http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/donate.htm
Thank you.
Kent Snyder The Liberty Committee http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
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