Snopes.com comes to the rescue once again
You’d like to think that some things are simply too ridiculous for Snopes.com to even bother debunking … but, apparently, you can’t always get what you want. This one comes from the latest Snopes newsletter.
The rumor: That the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – also known as “Obamacare” to some of those who oppose it — requires that everyone be implanted with an RFID microchip by March 23, 2013.
That’s every single American – 313 million individuals, give or take — by March 23, 2013.
I mean, seriously, that’s only a little more than a year from now. Don’t you think that 2014 or 2015 might be more realistic?
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