>>We all have health card numbers and the charges are made to the card number by the physician.<<

If the government has your card number and your card number is billed, the government has your medical records. You're right, the government knows lots of things about everyone, which unfortunately takes away a lot of our freedom. One thing that bothers me is that there are now video cameras everywhere. Cell phones contain GPS chips that can report where the phone is, and presumably also the phone owner. How long until the government requires phone companies to provide them that data?

There is a bumper sticker in the US which says, "One nation, under surveillance". Yes, we are under surveillance, and we have given away most of our privacy and a lot of our freedoms. Now we are giving away control of health care to the government, and how long will it be until health care delivery is used as a form of social engineering through deciding what to pay for and what not to pay for? I guess the question is, is there any place we can stop our loss of freedom? Is there any point at which we say it is enough?