Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 16:33:01 EDT
From: "W. K. (Bill) Gorman" <34AEJ7D@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject: File 2--Clinton Proposes National ID Card

Here is a data pointer you might find of interest.

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From--Ross_Werner@next.com
Subject--A national ID card - coming soon from the Clinton
administration?
Date--7 Apr 93 18:52:13 GMT

This is a brief synopsis of an article in Section B, page 7, in the
Wednesday, April 7, 1993 San Jose Mercury News.  Excerpted without
permission.  All typos are mine.

Headline: Big Brother's little sibling: the smart card
Author: Martin Anderson

The article discusses work ongoing in the Clinton administration to
give everyone a "smart card" for personal medical information, to
cut
down on waste, fraud, and abuse in health care.

   "But now the smart card idea may have taken an ugly turn.
   Recently, Ira Magaziner, a Uria Heepish bureaucrat in charge
   of coordinating the development of health care policy for the
   Clinton Administration, asserted they want "to create an
   integrated system with a card that everyone will get at
   birth."

another paragraph:

   "The smart card is an open, engraved invitation to a national
   identity card.  In the early 1980s when I worked in the West
   Wing of the White House as President Reagan's domestic policy
   adviser I was surprised by the ardent desire of government
   bureaucrats, many of them Reagan appointees, for a national
   identity card."

Apparently it almost happened.

   "The idea of a national identity card, with a new name, has
   risen once again from the graveyard of bad policy ideas, more
   powerful and virulent than ever.  Unless it is stopped quickly
   we may live to see the end of privacy in the United States,
   all of us tagged like so many fish."

The best part of this article is that it gives phone numbers to
call
to express your opinion, as Clinton has invited the public to do. 
I
urge everyone to call, and to spread the word.

        (202) 456 - 1414   White House switch board
        (202) 456 - 6406   Ira Magaziner's direct line (the person
working
                           for Clinton on the smart card)

about the author:

        "Martin Anderson, a senior adviser on the President's
Economic
        Policy Advisory Board during the Reagan administration, is
now
        a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.  He
        wrote this article fore the Scripps Howard News Service."

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