This bill -warts & all - is the best to come around. Hopefully congress can pass it relatively intact.
What I want to know is what amount of information must be contained on such a card to make sure that it cannot be misused.
Moreover, what other uses will evolve by the mere fact that such a card exists?
Wouldn't it be great if you could use this one card to pay for things and to get credit and as a driver's license? If you were in an accident, wouldn't it also be useful to have medical records and the names of your family as well?
Unfortunately these things would be great and make a very complicated lifestyle we now have more simple. And that means a demand would exist and that demand would be filled.
But, it is a very slippery slope, which criminals (both political and traditional)can lubricate to take us from convenience to Gattica. Just see my tag line.