OBAMACARE SECURITY SCARE The ObamaCare Web site crashed again Sunday, with major outages continuing into today. The software for verifying and protecting the personal information of applicants broke down. Government officials blamed the crash on an outside contractor, Verizon, but the failures in the so-called “data hub” are worsening fears about security first raised ahead of the launch. Federal inspectors issued multiple reports before Oct. 1 that found major problems in the plan to merge and protect the most comprehensive profiles of American citizens ever compiled by the government. More from Fox News. [“How can you expect the government to handle one sixth of the economy when there is this type of staggering in incompetence on a Web site rollout?”—Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace”] Out of time - The latest crash comes as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius prepares to testify on Wednesday before Congress about the debacle. The Obama administration has promised that the signup portal for the new entitlement program will work properly by the end of next month. But another five weeks may be too long for Congress to wait where questions of constituents’ personal information are concerned. Bipartisan calls for delaying the troubled program will grow amid this data scare. Boundary issues - “The problem is they may have to redesign the entire system…. Every time one agency goes to another agency with a piece of information, that is called a boundary. That’s the most — that’s the weakest, most vulnerable part of that conversation.” – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., talking to CNN. [Watch Fox: Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., discuses ObamaCare in the 10 a.m. ET hour] ObamaCare hits higher education - Daily Caller reports that under ObamaCare “Some 48 percent of universities–including 49 percent of public universities–have decided to place limitations on the number of hours adjunct professors can work, according to a survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed.” [NYT’s Paul Krugman: “Still, the fact remains that Obamacare is an immense kludge — a clumsy, ugly structure that more or less deals with a problem, but in an inefficient way.”] MISSING IN ACTION: HEALTH INSURANCE QUALITY RATINGS Americans who want to sign up for ObamaCare can only get evaluations of the insurance companies participating in the new entitlement program in eight states. Fox News Correspondent William La Jeunesse explains why most consumers aren’t getting the data.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:28:00 +0000
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