Clinton health-care advisor Ira Magaziner said that whatever health plan Congress enacts, it will include a smart card. Don't think this high-tech intrusiveness is unique to Democrats. The Bush administration had a never-enacted legislative proposal for a medical billing system with smart cards.
Smart cards come in several forms.
One sort has inside it a microprocessor and memory chip. Another contains an optical recording strip, again encapsulated in a credit-card format. Drexler has since announced an improved version with about one and a half times the capacity. A smart card is a portable personal data base. People with the right equipment can read this information or change it.