Only problem is, private business is incompetent and the news of the day of this incompetence: that hundreds of millions of customers lost their Soc. Sec. Number, their credit information (including card numbers) and personal information. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/13/target-retail-industry-hacks-2014/4460441/ Right. A healthcare website is rolled out with some problems and that's proof positive of government's inherent incompetence. Private industry is giving away credit card numbers of its customers and not a peep from FOX News about the commonplace incompetence of Big Business. Lovely. There's government for you.
That's the best you can do? Try to equate the result of cyber attacks on businesses with the cyber security of healthcare.gov? Two problems: 1) Healthcare.gov has far more wrong with it than just security. 2) If a private business has demonstrated security - or other - incompetencies, the public has the free right to vote with their feet and mice. Healthcare.gov leaves no such choice. This is creating a built-in Government Monopoly, and you don't seem to have a problem with it. Of course, I strongly suspect I am addressing a sock of someone who was just banned, so not sure why I'm bothering.
This makes no sense. Big Fed has built a craptacular failure of a web based system. It has exceeded every expectation of disaster I ever imagined. Literally nobody expected them to screw up this badly. And Target is compromised? No connection.
hahahaa Great points. Trust is trust and private industry cannot keep the trust. They are not only incompetent, they are corrupt as well. The ACA is a market-based healthcare solution Pappy. Check it's republican Heritage Foundation origins.
ANYONE who puts all the personal information required by the ACA Health site on a non-secure. or barely secure, website is a FOOL. But they are caught in a catch 22 situation in that they either comply and hope to not get to screwed or don't sign up and have no insurance.
Nobody is forcing me to shop at Target, FAH. O'Bama is trying to force me to buy his brand of health insurance though.
You're not going far enough, Sub. Healthcare.gov is tied into a lot of different branches and websites of the government. It's a smorgasbord of information waiting for a cyber-thief to access. You think losing a little information from your debit card is bad. The information tied into this website through intra-agencies will guarantee people losing their identities.
When 79% of the people enrolling on ObamaCare go on Medicaid or get a government subsidy that is not a free market based system. And even less so when government is going to bail to the private insurance companies with billions of taxpayer dollar to compensate for the healthcare mess that the idiot government workers and nanny state politicians created.
You do not need to use the website. you can sign up on the phone or by mail. If you are not eligible for a subsidy you can call up a broker or insurance company (or their website) and sign up through there.
Lets compare responses to the security problems; Target notified their customers immediately and gave them instructions on how to avoid further damage once the breach was discovered. HHS has done neither. Target has fixed their problem. HHS has not. And unlike HHS, private co's (like Target) have a huge incentive to protect their customers security, its called profits. HHS on the other hand has one goal, signing people up at whatever cost. They knew the web site was unsecured when they launched, they know it now, but they diddling with "glitches" and still pushing folks to use it anyway. It's pretty damn obvious they could less if people's personal information is stolen, which should tell people just how unstable this HC scheme is working in general.
Meanwhile - So, to any of our PF.com members who logged onto Obamacare (if they are brave enough to admit it) - OOPS!
