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- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 16:33:01 EDT
- From: "W. K. (Bill) Gorman" <34AEJ7D@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
- Subject: File 2--Clinton Proposes National ID Card
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- From--Ross_Werner@next.com
- Subject--A national ID card - coming soon from the Clinton
- administration?
- Date--7 Apr 93 18:52:13 GMT
-
- This is a brief synopsis of an article in Section B, page 7, in the
- Wednesday, April 7, 1993 San Jose Mercury News. Excerpted without
- permission. All typos are mine.
-
- Headline: Big Brother's little sibling: the smart card
- Author: Martin Anderson
-
- The article discusses work ongoing in the Clinton administration to
- give everyone a "smart card" for personal medical information, to
- cut
- down on waste, fraud, and abuse in health care.
-
- "But now the smart card idea may have taken an ugly turn.
- Recently, Ira Magaziner, a Uria Heepish bureaucrat in charge
- of coordinating the development of health care policy for the
- Clinton Administration, asserted they want "to create an
- integrated system with a card that everyone will get at
- birth."
-
- another paragraph:
-
- "The smart card is an open, engraved invitation to a national
- identity card. In the early 1980s when I worked in the West
- Wing of the White House as President Reagan's domestic policy
- adviser I was surprised by the ardent desire of government
- bureaucrats, many of them Reagan appointees, for a national
- identity card."
-
- Apparently it almost happened.
-
- "The idea of a national identity card, with a new name, has
- risen once again from the graveyard of bad policy ideas, more
- powerful and virulent than ever. Unless it is stopped quickly
- we may live to see the end of privacy in the United States,
- all of us tagged like so many fish."
-
- The best part of this article is that it gives phone numbers to
- call
- to express your opinion, as Clinton has invited the public to do.
- I
- urge everyone to call, and to spread the word.
-
- (202) 456 - 1414 White House switch board
- (202) 456 - 6406 Ira Magaziner's direct line (the person
- working
- for Clinton on the smart card)
-
- about the author:
-
- "Martin Anderson, a senior adviser on the President's
- Economic
- Policy Advisory Board during the Reagan administration, is
- now
- a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He
- wrote this article fore the Scripps Howard News Service."
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