Running away from Obamacare.
Via Hot Air
Yet another anti-Obamacare vote that’s far more bipartisan than the original vote for Obamacare. The Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act is a short and sweet piece of legislation, whcih requires the department of Health and Human Services to reveal security breaches of HealthCare.gov to the public within two days of their occurrence.
The White House deems this requirement, ahem, overly burdensome in the paperwork department.
Democrats are calling the House’s bill little more than a messaging bill, but it deals with a pretty clear problem in federal law— while the feds require all kinds of private entities to quickly report their security breaches, the government itself is apparently allowed to build a website out of popsicle sticks and old Trident, vulnerable to all kinds of hacking, and never tell you your information may have been violated. And, what you don’t know can hurt you, in this case. Mark down 67 Democrats on board with this dastardly message:
The House passed the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act, H.R. 3811, in a 291-122 vote. Sixty-seven Democrats voted for the bill, ignoring arguments from party leaders that the bill was a “messaging” vote meant to discourage people from signing up for insurance.
The one-sentence bill says that no later than two business days after any security breach on an ObamaCare site is discovered, “the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide notice of such breach to each individual.” Republicans said that under current law, the government is not required to notify people if their information is put at risk.
“It may shock some people to learn that there is no legal requirement that the Department of Health and Human Services notify an individual if his or her personal information is breached or improperly accessed through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges,” said Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.).
The White House said it opposed the bill, arguing the government already has plans to tell people if their information has been compromised.