said by Frodo:»www.usnews.com/news/poli ··· on-cards
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Officials said Tuesday the government is on track to meet a 2019 deadline for replacing Social Security numbers on Medicare cards with randomly generated digits and letters to protect seniors against identity theft.
Which, of course, means closing a barn door after huge herds of horses have already left the barn... while still leaving numerous other barn doors wide open.
Back when the Congressional SS debates were raging in the 1930's, because of all the citizen tracking/identification concerns, the solemn promise was made that a SSN would only ever be used to identify a person's "SS retirement account" number, just (and only) like a bank account number and never for anything else. From the SS program's onset until today, that promise has been broken so many times and in so many ways as to stand as a classic textbook example of government's utter inability to keep promises made to citizens at one point in time against the countless political pressures that continually appear at later points in time.