[metmom]

Boy, do I have mixed feelings on this one. On the surface, it sounds so reasonable, but once that foot is in the door, they'll find reasons to have everybody get them.

Wouldn't something like a medic alert braclet work better? I know they're removable, but I'd think a patient with Alzheimers would likely have trouble taking it off.

Slippery slope time.

[wagglebee]

It would seem to me that a medical bracelet with a chip could be secured on dementia patients in such a way that they couldn't remove it. They are now selling GPS watches for children that can't be removed and an alarm is sent if the strap is cut.

[Gabz]

I have the same mixed feelings that you do.

[Calpernia]

They already have reasons to implement everyone.

See FR keyword: tagging

Samples:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790706/posts
FDNY Testing Device to Track Firefighters in Action

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787816/posts
Corporate America is Tracking Your Every Move

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1772089/posts
Committee on Livestock Identification

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766883/posts
RFID Ink Product Can Track Humans (Chipless Ink Tatoo RFID)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753165/posts
A GENERATION IS ALL THEY NEED

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736700/posts
Brown wants to expand GPS monitoring beyond tracking sex offenders

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659693/posts
Fla.-Made Microchip To Be Used In Volunteers With Memory Loss

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643248/posts
Tracking Chip Implants Proposed for Legal Immigrants

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642195/posts
Immigrants should wear RFID tags

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628973/posts
Spychipped Levi's Brand Jeans Hit The U.S.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607436/posts
NAIS Spawned by International Entanglements

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597816/posts
California gang members to be tracked by GPS

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595825/posts
Biometric Data Keeps Captured Terrorists Behind Bars

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1582161/posts
USDA ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION BOONDOGGLE REPORT

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578091/posts
Identity Tags Implanted Under Workers' Skin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577276/posts
US group implants electronic tags in workers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576827/posts
The UN's $7 Trillion Socialist Scam

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564815/posts
Digital Angel and Microchip

[Malacoda]

Next, it will be soldiers. Then, newborns and children...then the Fed workers...

Hooray for the slippery slope.