Obamacare cutting major corners to advance, States are concerned...

I came across this and did a search. I'm surprised no one else picked up on it as it gave me a shock to read.

In a world of cracking down on leakers and whole new sweeping programs instituted across all areas of Government to investigate people more thoroughly and background them while encouraging everyone to report those they see even remotely suspicious at work? ONE area of Government is apparently deemed un-necessary in terms of the basic security it HAD been assigned to carry out and insure for program integrity.

Which area? Why..Obamacare of course. The headline: Attorneys general raise privacy concerns over ObamaCare navigators

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi argued late Friday that new hires under ObamaCare could threaten the private information of people trying to get health insurance.

Bondi said that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making it easier for someone to be hired as a so-called navigator, cutting back on background checks and eliminating a fingerprinting requirement, which could make it easier for a person’s private information to fall into the wrong hands.

Okay, this pisses me off in a personal way. A friend of mine on the next street over went to Kansas to work at a sleep study center. (work is real easy to find.. yeah.. right). He lasted there all of 48 hours before behind fired and sent home. Why? As a computer specialist, he was hired to work and help maintain their systems. Well, he pulled up part of a patient screen to verify display properties and that was it. On the spot. Bye Bye and no appeal, while being handed a copy of HIPPA (US Health privacy laws) to explain his summary termination. That, for an innocent mistake on a record he couldn't have cared less to read. That wasn't even the point. Yet?

“Because of time constraints, HHS [is] cutting back on the requirement to become a navigator, meaning they're not going to be doing background checks. They're not going to be fingerprinting these people,” said Bondi in an interview with Fox.

“And it's more than navigators. It's people that assist the navigators. Now, these navigators will have our consumers throughout the country's most personal and private information — tax return information, Social Security information. And our biggest fear, of course, is identity theft.”

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What the hell? They promised our privacy and record integrity would be safe guarded and protected. Now? Oh well.... silly promises need not be kept, right? Nawww.... Not when passing the next phase may be slowed even a hair. Must push AHEAD! Damn the torpedoes and all promises of basic conduct!

They are so determined to have this in place and impossible to change or repeal as quickly as humanly possible? The outright damage done to people and lives lost by slipping through the medical cracks along the way are meaningless. Eggs cracked for the Omelette, I guess.

So much for ANY level of confidence in privacy or security of records.

reply to post by wrabbit2000


I did a thread on this that didn't seem to garner too much interest as perplexing as that is.

Then made another one about the con artists who will be scamming people.

“Because of time constraints, HHS [is] cutting back on the requirement to become a navigator, meaning they're not going to be doing background checks. They're not going to be fingerprinting these people,” said Bondi in an interview with Fox.

Don't know what is worse the lax security measures especially since that data hub is going to be linked with DHS, DOD, and other government agencies.

What a boondoggle this is.

Hope yours does better

reply to post by wrabbit2000


What I don't get is how the Obamacare mess can't be appealed and destroyed.

It has exhibited any many ways that it is Definitely Not on the right track at all. Not even close.

It is going to cost several trillions more than initially thought, and everyone is getting stuck with a
bill that no one wants. In addition, the cost of health insurance has risen to a ridiculous rate that no one can afford.

I think if something isn't done about this quickly then we are in for a hell of a ride.

It is really sad to say the least, but, I have talked to people that say that they have no intention of filing taxes for the 2013 tax year or any other year ever again for that matter. I personally think that they have a good point, but, they are going to be going about it the wrong way.

reply to post by ShadellacZumbrum


I almost hate to answer your question because the answer is so damned depressing, it's better to wonder sometimes and find hope in the ignorance.

Why can't it be repealed or removed? The answer is as simple as it is final. It can't be because it's implementation began almost immediately. It's BEEN coming into effect this whole time. The approach and style this has been implemented has insured what came before is torn to pieces and shredded in the process of replacement. So.... If you COULD repeal the ACA...what then? What we all imagine going back to, no longer exists as a system to use in any meaningful way.

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When Hernan Cortes landed with his small fleet of invaders upon the shores of the new world, he ordered his men to burn all but one ship. Why? With NOTHING to use in getting back to where they came from? There was NO choice left but to go forward and with all possible determination.

We've been conquered and didn't even realize it, in a way.

With all the recent targeting lately, the whole data collection thing sickens me.

You're talking about the two most abused attributes our government ignores.

Honesty and accountability.

Scary stuff.

reply to post by wrabbit2000


So your saying that Obama has Conquered his Own American People in the same way the Cortes Conquered those Aztecs.

I think it is getting close to the time that people are going to stop taking the wrong end of the stick.

The people have capitulated to the tyrannical needs of an Uncaring and self righteously motivated government.


It really is Time To Rise Against the Machines.

reply to post by ShadellacZumbrum

I think the ships are a good analogy to burning the old medical system so the foot soldiers of the replacement know there is no way back, there is no giving up and there is no option but to make this work at any cost ....because nothing exists as a fallback if given up.

It's a very clever and devious way of doing this ...and what I'd expect from a hostile, declared enemy. Not the leaders of our own nation, supposedly serving in our name and doing all this with and for us.

We've definitely been had in that particular way, yeah. Now, ask yourself why Republicans keep mentioning repeal AT ALL...because they damn sure know all I explained here and know it far better than I do. The political ping pong match of meaningless show goes on for our amusement and distraction. It runs daily.

reply to post by wrabbit2000


So with the advent of Obamacare;

Healthcare costs go up.
Premiums go up.
Services decrease.
Our personal information is at risk.
More people will die needlessly.
Taxes increase.
More people lose their job.
More people lose their current health coverage.

Actually, Obamacare is working just how the progressives who created it wanted.