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Here’s a story on the latest chain email making the rounds.

It’s a recipe for a great conspiracy theory: a big health care bill, an effort to centralize medical records and a new microchip that can be implanted under your skin.

A chain e-mail warns darkly that an “implantable radio frequency transponder system for patient identification and health information” would be “implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option” — the government-run insurance plan designed as an affordable option for people who are uninsured or whose employers don’t offer health coverage. The chip would “collect data in medical patients,” including “claims data” and “electronic health records.”

Americans, the e-mail continues, would likely flock to the the public option. This would mean that “the number of people chipped will be plentiful as well. Children conceived by parents who are already covered under the public option will more than likely be implanted with a chip by the consent of the parent. Eventually everyone will be implanted with a chip. And with the price and coverage of the public option being so competitive with the private companies, the private company [sic] may not survive.”

One would like to think that anything as ridiculous as this would be quickly dismissed as pure nonsense. But then we realize that we’re not living in sane times.  In the world of wingnuttia, no claim against liberals and dems is too outlandish or insane to not take hold with some.  After all, this is the party of birthers and “death panel” claims.  This is the party that attracts loonies like you-know-what attracts flies.

Here’s my prediction: some conservative whack-job will soon bring this bit of craziness up and claim that President Obama wants you implanted with a microchip.  The likely suspects, of course, are Glenn Beck, Michele Bachmann, Virginia Foxx and Sarah Palin.

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