We covered the crazy “Monkey Court” rant of Rep. Frank Pallone yesterday. But under that rant was the hidden threat inherent within applying for Obamacare.
Rep. Frank Pallone tried to argue that because the Obamcare applications didn’t contain “health information” that they didn’t have to be HIPAA compliant. Of course, this is patently untrue. Other federal privacy regulations might also apply as well.
But imagine, not only is the site not adequately protected from theft and fraud, but now, they even want to argue information you would submit would not have to be kept private. Yet, they still want to urge you to sign up. Unreal…
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Thursday grilled Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI Federal Inc., the company that built the Obamacare health-insurance exchange website, on language hidden in source code on the site that says applicants have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.”
Barton showed Campbell an image of the website coding that included this warning, and she confirmed that she knew it was there.
However, she insisted that in developing the site the way it did, her company was simply following “a set of rules and regulations” set out under their contract by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.