No, not really, for two reasons:
1. The NBC piece is from 2007 predicting what would come to be in 2017. Way before Obamacare was a wet dream in Nanci Pelosi’s eye. Back then, if I recall correctly there was much ballyhoo about implantable chips for medical reasons. For use as a medical records storage device. But all of this talk, and the huge public backlash against it, pretty much shoved it to the back burner even to this day (although it’s pretty common to “chip” one’s pet these days. )
2. The relevant section of Obamacare (or what is described as the relevant section in the blog), pages 1501-1510, deal with, I believe, the loathesome innovation of Obamacare (well ok one of many) that puts nearly bankrupting regulations on the backs of medical device manufacturers. Indeed, the “scariest” portion of this portion of the law is on pages 1509-1510, which talks about mandated “device identifiers” but these identifiers are to track the medical devices made by manufacturers. Not people.
So there’s not much of a “there” there. Except it provides an easy link to the Obamacare bill (now law). So that’s neat.
Also, it’s freaky how Brian Williams hasn’t aged much at all since 2007. I guess that contract with the devil is working out pretty good for him (at least for now).
The Controversy Magnet: PositiveID “Chips” Alzheimer’s Patients, Quite Possibly Without Permission
Last Updated 2010
When is a medical experiment in which you implant microchips in 200 old people with Alzheimer’s disease not a medical experiment? According to PositiveID (PSID), it’s when you forget to get permission from an institutional review board, which oversees medical experiments on humans.
In 2007, a press release from VeriChip, PositiveID’s old name, repeatedly called the move “a study,” . . .
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-controversy-magnet-positiveid-chips-alzheimers-patients-quite-possibly-without-permission/
VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire
2010 UPDATE: PositiveID Deal Advances Use of Microchip Implants in Florida Health System
VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault (SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft company. The combined company will operate under a new name: PositiveID.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/verichip-buys-steel-vault-creating-micro-implant-health-record-credit-score-empire/