Posted on 04/27/2010 6:30:56 AM PDT by Scythian
(NaturalNews)
Now that the U.S. government has achieved its monopoly over health care, new technologies are in the works that will allow the government to remotely monitor and track whether ordinary citizens are complying with taking medications prescribed by conventional doctors. One new technology described at the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging allows "pills to be electronically outfitted with transmitters" which would track the patient's compliance with medications and broadcast that information back to government health care enforcers who check for "compliance and efficacy."
"Emerging technologies allow pills to be electronically outfitted with transmitters to communicate with the user's wristwatch that shows that the pill has been consumed," said University of Virginia professor Robin Felder at the committee meeting. "Broadband connectivity of these devices would allow the electronic medical record to be updated with regard to medication compliance and efficacy."
This would allow government health operators, for example, to know whether you've taken all your prescribed psychiatric medications. If you veer from the course of pharmaceuticals prescribed by your doctor, health care enforcement agents could be dispatched to your door to make sure you start taking your pills.
Parents who currently attempt to protect their children from toxic medical therapies such as chemotherapy could be closely monitored by government medical enforcement agents. If you try to flush dangerous pharmaceuticals down the toilet instead of actually taking them, the lack of an electronic tracking signal will let your health care observers know you didn't really take the pills.
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death with a ‘click’, how efficient
I sure would trust a government doctor to do this medicating, but hey why can’t he speak English.
Like most technologies, there is another side to this, which is beneficial. Of all the things we have to worry about, I’d put this WAY down near the bottom of the list.
Maybe this is really what lies behind the push for I2, the need all this broadband for tracking every little thing about us, which health care is going to make possible ...
This is totally approriate for people who've been convicted of a crime or avoided conviction by claiming mental illness. I wish the government would keep violent crazies locked up, but if they're going to let paranoid schizophrenics and child molesters roam the streets on condition that they take their anti-psychotic or chemical castration pills, then I'm happy to have these perps pill-taking compliance monitored.
As for everybody else, if anyone tries to make you take information-transmitting pills, it's time to exercise your 2A rights in a very direct way.
BIG BROTHER! I don’t want the government telling me to take a DAM. pill and when to take it.
WTF???!?
Big Tobacco Giants to track Obummer`s nicotine habit compliance with electronic transmitters in his cigarettes
Could be, but I think the Obama regime is just power hungry and wants to control everything — especially anything that portends to control free speech..
I sure won’t be taking any of those government remote control pills, how about you?
We are people, not R2D2s.
Oh well, a little Ex-Lax should do the trick, and don't wear a Watch. lol
The day this goes into affect is the day I unload my arsenal.
OK ... while the METHODS may seem totalitarian, ya gotta consider the upside, and there really is one.
This medical tracking would NOT be for ALL meds, only certain ones and certain patients. For instance —
80% or more of ALL healthcare costs are incurred by people with CHRONIC conditions and those costs (the excessive ones) directly correlate to NON-compliance with their meds or lifestyle. For example, a diabetic, obese, hypertensive, eldery, low income (Medicaid/Medicare) patient who doesn’t take their meds, doesn’t manage their diet, doesn’t check their blood sugar, etc., ends up in the emergency room twice a year simply because they did not do what they easily could have. Those visits to the ER cost you and me a TON of money. THAT money could be saved by making sure that people do what they need to to stay ‘healthy’ and out of critical care units.
Now at a lower level, I have cholesterol issues that I manage (successfully) by taking a pill EVERY DAY. I see that as analogous to wearing a seat belt EVERY TIME I get in the car. If I have a wreck and am injured because I didn’t wear my seat belt (as REQUIRED by law) then my insurer OUGHT to be able to say I share culpability for my injuries, and respond appropriately. So if I don’t take my pill the way I ought to, I have WILLFULLY contributed to an enhanced risk of heart disease, same as if I didn’t watch my diet and get exercise.
What’s my point? If someone is going to cover my risk of illness or injury with insurance, they can set REASONABLE requirements on my behaviour and my compliance or else move me into a higher risk (ie higher premium) group.
It happens with smokers, so why not with pill takers?
Just stirring the pot.
BS
Even if you are convicted of a crime, the government does not own your body.
I highly recommend everyone check the website:
www.askapatient.com
See what the side effects of the medications that are being handed out like candy to you now cause. Doctors currently have no idea what is wrong with you after your 5-minute visit. The SOP is to hand you two or three prescriptions and send you on your way. I go home and throw most of them away.
You’re stirring the pot with an idiot stick.
In a free country, citizens are not chattels of the state no matter what kind of spin you try to put on it.
But the corporatists/soviets corrupting our government have changed that.
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