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The Obamacare Hub -Transfer of Data and Dollars <http://www.freedomworks.org/files/TheObamacareHub.pdf>**** ========================================================== http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-employee-accidentally-sends-out-2400-social-security-numbers_753991.html **** Obamacare Employee Accidentally Sends Out 2,400 Social Security Numbers**** 9:05 AM, Sep 14, 2013 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON<http://www.weeklystandard.com/author/jeffrey-h.-anderson> **** ** ** With Obamacare’s massive Patient Data Hub poised to open soon<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obamacares-data-hub/2013/09/10/d1640cb4-1a46-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html>, a sloppy mistake by an Obamacare employee hasn’t exactly inspired confidence that Americans’ private information will be closely guarded by Obamacare’s powers-that-be. As the *Minneapolis Star Tribune* reports (and Andrew Johnson highlights<http://nationalreview.com/corner/358469/minn-obamacare-exchange-employee-e-mails-thousands-social-security-numbers-andrew>at NRO), an Obamacare exchange employee in Minnesota accidentally sent out an email containing 2,400 Americans’ Social Security numbers. **** The *Star Tribune* writes <http://www.startribune.com/>:**** “A MNsure employee accidentally sent an e-mail file to an Apple Valley insurance broker’s office on Thursday that contained Social Security numbers, names, business addresses and other identifying information on more than 2,400 insurance agents.**** “An official at MNsure, the state’s new online health insurance exchange, acknowledged it had mishandled private data. A MNsure security manager called the broker, Jim Koester, and walked him and his assistant through a process of deleting the file from their computer hard drives.**** “Koester said he willingly complied, but was unnerved.**** “‘The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was,’ he said. ‘What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It’s scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?’”**** “Users of the exchange will need to provide sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, that will be sent to a federal hub to verify such things as citizenship and household income…. **** “All states and the federal government, which also is setting up exchanges for some states, are scurrying to get the complex system running in less than three weeks.**** “‘The people who believe in this are so driven that there’s a subcontext of “Just let us do our job and get as many people signed up as possible, and we’ll pick up the debris later,”’ said Steve Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor who specializes in health IT issues.**** “Parente testified on Capitol Hill earlier this week, urging caution in pushing the federal hub online before it has been thoroughly tested.**** The *Star Tribune* reports that the recipient of the mishandled privacy data was applying to become an Obamacare “navigator”**** “Koester, the agent, had been working with MNsure staff because he was having trouble registering for classes to get trained as a certified ‘navigator’ to help people sign up for coverage.**** “Koester said there had been some back-and-forth with a MNsure staffer when he received an e-mail and attachment that took him by surprise: page after page of names, business addresses, license numbers and Social Security numbers.**** …“‘[T]he gorilla in the room is that they sent me something that’s not even encrypted. It’s unsecured, on an Excel spreadsheet — which is using outdated technology to transfer that information in the first place.’ **** “‘They’ve got to realize they have a huge problem.’”**** Here’s a helpful diagram<http://www.freedomworks.org/files/TheObamacareHub.pdf>of how Obamacare’s Patient Data Hub would operate, courtesy of FreedomWorks. Maybe it’s time to delay Obamacare—before repealing it in 2017.**** __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
