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FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV
AHuxley writes "The FBI is getting fast new systems to look at local North Carolina license photos via the DMV. As the FBI is not authorized to collect and store the photos, they use the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. The system takes seconds to look at chin widths and nose sizes. The expanded technology used on millions of motorist could be rolled out across the USA. The FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is also getting an upgrade to DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans."
Err...a more basic question is...WHY would you need someones picture ID just to buy a cell phone? I never knew that was a requirement?!?!
I certainly didn't give an ID, or a SSN for my recent iPhone purchase. Why would you need an picture id?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Affording health care services *is* the problem.
Absolutely. How health care is paid for is irrelevant compared to that it is paid for.
Government intrusion into health care is what has and is causing the price of health care to go up.
That's odd. I thought it was monopolies, and the bizarre situation where everyone along the chain passes the buck.
Doctors get paid for service, meaning the more tests and operations they perform, the more money they make. These charges get passed on the health insurer that either drops the patient, or passes the costs onto the person paying the patient's insurance premiums, typically the patient's employer. Alternately, the doctor and/or the patient's insurer pass the charges on to medicare, which picks up the tab, because its the government. The patient never gets a bill, and so demands more and more services since according his/her perspective they are free.
Bonus Round: Medicare is BY LAW forbidden to negotiate lower prices for the services it pays for because it would be "a government price control." (Funny. When I took economics, this was called "a volume discount.")
You really need to actually learn how healthcare is paid for in this country, and how it's paid for in other countries with their "damn socialist medicine" before deciding on a cause. The fact that the US spends multiples what other OCED countries spend (16% GDP versus 10% GDP) with increases greatly outstripping inflation, while the US is 15th in life expectancy the only metric for effectiveness of healthcare that we should care about. After all, it's about living longer, healthier lives.
Clearly government involvement isn't the problem. In fact, evidence indicates that the lack of government involvement is the problem. Since everyone else has lower costs, and better health, than the US, and that's the common factor between the rest of the OCED that's lacking in the US.
And, while we are at it, fix unfunded mandated benefits of Social Security and Medicaid, which are currently 58 TRILLION in the hole.
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The government *must* not ever be put into a situation where promised benefits are mandated to the point of bankrupting the country.
Wait. I thought you wanted to stop the government from paying anything. Make up your mind!
Citation needed.
Citation needed.
Dear, Slashdot is not a Progressives' gathering — even if it feels like that some times. You need to substantiate your figures.
That said, even if your numbers were true, it wouldn't have changed a thing. Government providing health care is broadly against the Constitution, and past violations (such as Medicaid) don't justify new ones.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
???? I don't think, the word "troll" means, what you think, it means...
This does not at all follow from anything you've said — not that I can pretend to understand your passionate word-juggling (Hitler a Libertarian? Wow!) I stand by my allegation, that the Left are (not so crypto-) Fascist — and my evidence to that is in the similarity of their stated goals to those of NSDAP...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.