RFID Chips - Would You Buy?

Verichip is going to market their Health Link RFID implants directly to the public beginning April 28,2008. Verichip will hook up its chip with its patient ID system called Health Link. The implant will carry personal health records which will be readily accessible to emergency personal if the patient is unconscious, confused or unresponsive. It will provide doctors and nurses with immediate access to vital medical and emergency contact information.

The microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is injected just under the skin in the rear upper portion of the right arm. The Health Link microchip stores only a unique 16-digit identification number. Emergency medical personnel use the Health Link scanner to retrieve the member’s identification number to access his or her personal health record.

Is this the forerunner to the mark of the beast that Revelation 13:16-18 talks about?
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.