Do they have any non-monetary ulterior motives?
Many in the Clinton administration and elsewhere believed that the federal government should manage the health care industry, and that all Americans should carry national ID cards which link them to a national medical database. Portions of this plan were passed by Congress in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (also known as Kennedy-Kassebaum) which mandated a national ID number for tracking personal medical histories. The pilot project for this Orwellian scheme is the CDC Immunization Registry. The Clinton administration was lobbying to repeal state privacy laws so that government officials will have unfettered access to private medical records.
