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How Ron / Rand Paul Stopped the US Government from Imposing a National Vaccine Passport
RPI ^ | June 19 | written by adam dick

Posted on 06/20/2021 6:47:09 AM PDT by RandFan

Who do Americans have to thank for the United States government not subjecting them to a national vaccine passport like those being imposed by national governments in Europe? Megan Redshaw wrote in a Wednesday article at Children’s Health Defense that the credit goes to Ron Paul who, while serving as a member of the US House of Representatives, led the effort to bar the US government from creating for each American a “unique health identifier” number.

Redshaw wrote:

So far, the Biden administration has resisted the idea of a “vaccine passport” for the U.S. On May 28, U.S. Director of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas said the U.S. was taking a “very close look” at vaccine passports for international travel. Later that day, the DHS clarified there will be no “federal mandate” for vaccine passports in the U.S.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the U.S. does not have a national database for immunization records that could act as the source of vaccination data for use in digital passes. That’s because a national system to create a unique identification number to link the health records of every American has been banned since 1998, spearheaded by then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who said such a system would be an unwarranted privacy intrusion.

An attempt to overturn the ban passed the U.S. House in 2019, but was rejected by the Senate.

Paul left the US House in January of 2013.

Paul’s son Rand Paul has been a key person working in the US Senate to keep in place the prohibition on a unique health identifier. A September of 2019 press release from Rand Paul’s Senate office recounts the following:

Dr. Paul’s father, former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), introduced language to the Labor-HHS appropriations bill in 1998 to restrict the use of federal funds to develop the identifier, and such a ban has been continually renewed in each Labor-HHS appropriations bill since.

This June, however, an amendment stripped this critical protection for Americans out of the version of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill ultimately passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Enacting the bill into law with this amendment or a similar provision would open the floodgates for a government-issued ID to be linked with the private medical history of every man, woman, and child in America.

Prior to introducing standalone legislation to repeal the original authority created under HIPAA, Dr. Paul successfully advocated this month for keeping language banning federal funding for the unique health identifier in the proposed Senate version of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill.


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To: enumerated

Absolutely, And so few care that it will be their Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren who will have to pay off that debt as a slave to the State. But who cares about tomorrow, let’s party today and not worry about it. Me. my, mine in the now.


21 posted on 06/20/2021 10:38:11 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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22 posted on 06/20/2021 11:39:31 AM PDT by bitt ( A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.)
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To: RandFan

The Pauls join Ross Perot in being more right than most, more often,
and more right than all their haters here on Free Republic.
(Of whom many are probably among that 1/3rd of visiting CCP Students
who have been assigned spy duties, that we just learned about…)

What was it, again, that Ross said about the CIA, that he was laughed at for?
He was right too, you know…

~Easy


23 posted on 06/20/2021 12:00:56 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: EasySt

Your reply sent me off looking for info on Ross Perot-I found a great deal of info on this website-

http://www.famoustexans.com/rossperot.htm

Seems to be a very worthwhile site for more info on other Texans.


24 posted on 06/20/2021 1:14:12 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Biden's illegal presidency is a demonazi declaration of war on Americans and civilization.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Hey Troll-boi.

Good to hear from you.

NOT.


25 posted on 06/20/2021 8:31:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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