According to documents forced from the government using the Freedom of Information Act, the plan included inserting a special government-designed chip into the cards. The idea was the Department of Justice could then monitor your health care providers for fraud and abuse. The result would be to monitor you wherever you presented your card. According to the documents, the snooper chip and some of Mrs. Clinton's involvement became public in 1993. One smart-card manufacturer wrote the Clinton administration and argued against the plan for the Clipper chip to be part of mandatory Hillary Clinton health care.
Health cards are a major new market for smart cards.
The Clipper chip, however, was intended for more than just your Hillary health care card. According to a March 1993 Justice Department memo from Stephen Colgate, assistant attorney general for administration, to Webster Hubbell, the Clipper chip was to be required by law. Colgate's memo to Hubbell details how the Clintons planned to bug every phone in America. In 1997, the Clipper project sank after years of protests and Freedom of Information requests. However, much about the Clipper project remains top secret today.