The Affordable Health Care Act Hell Hole Discussions - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T22:24:37Zhttps://12160.info/group/verybarrycarehell/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noVery Barry Care is DEAD!!! Good riddance to a very bad Tax scamtag:12160.info,2017-05-04:2649739:Topic:16813492017-05-04T20:25:23.324ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<div class="group-container"><div class="group"><p>After years of debate, the House on Thursday voted to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act and replace them with new provisions.</p>
<p>The vote, which President <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/" target="_self">Donald Trump</a> was planning to tout as a big victory, sends the …</p>
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<div class="group-container"><div class="group"><p>After years of debate, the House on Thursday voted to repeal key parts of the Affordable Care Act and replace them with new provisions.</p>
<p>The vote, which President <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/" target="_self">Donald Trump</a> was planning to tout as a big victory, sends the <a class="inline_asset" href="http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=105944" title="http://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=105944" target="_self">Republican-sponsored bill</a> to gut Obamacare to the Senate for consideration.</p>
<p>But winning approval for the bill could be even more difficult in the Senate than it has been in the House, where Republican leaders struggled for nearly two months to wrangle enough votes in their caucus to secure its passage.</p>
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<p>The bill passed by a vote of 217 to 213, which was one more "yes" vote that was needed for passage.</p>
<p>All 193 Democrats voting opposed the bill. They were joined by 20 Republicans voting "no."</p>
<p>"A lot of us have waited seven years to case this vote," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said shortly before the voting began. "Many of us are here because we pledged to cast this vote: to repeal and replace Obamacare."</p>
<p>"This bill delivers the promises we have made to the American people," Ryan said.</p>
<p>House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., told MSNBC shortly before the vote began, "We were elected to do this."</p>
<p>After the vote, protesters outside the Capitol building yelled, "Shame, shame!" at members of Congress walking down the front steps.</p>
<p>The bill — which would dramatically change the way the federal government funds purchases of individual health plans and Medicaid — is expected to dramatically increase the number of people without health insurance if enacted into law.</p>
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<div class="group"><p>Thursday's vote came a week after the bill was amended to include a provision that won support from conservative holdouts. That provision would, under certain conditions, undo Obamacare's ban on letting insurers charge people with pre-existing health conditions more for their insurance plans than healthy people.</p>
<p>Moderate Republicans initially blanched at that provision. But on Wednesday a number of them agreed to support the bill after the addition of another amendment that would increase funding designed to reduce the impact of the higher premiums on people with pre-existing conditions. Analysis <a class="inline_asset" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gops-obamacare-replacement-bill-would-protect-just-5-percent-of-people-with-pre-existing-conditions-analysis.html" title="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gops-obamacare-replacement-bill-would-protect-just-5-percent-of-people-with-pre-existing-conditions-analysis.html" target="_self">questions how far that funding may go to cut costs for those Americans</a>.</p>
<p>The bill, known as the American Health Care Act, would remove the Obamacare rule requiring most Americans to have health coverage of some kind.</p>
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</div> The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 in Indiatag:12160.info,2016-01-04:2649739:Topic:16042032016-01-04T20:05:22.710ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<h1>The Same Pill That Costs $1,000 in America Sells for $4 in India</h1>
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<p> Outsiders don’t want their daughters to marry any local boys, according to the village elders swapping stories in a tailor’s shop behind the Sikh temple, because most residents are infected with black jaundice.</p>
<div class="entry-content"><p>That’s what they call hepatitis C, which is so common in parts of India’s Punjab state that the tailor-shop gossips might not be off base in their estimate. But prevalence could be something of an advantage these days. Drugmakers have made the village of Lande Rode one of the theaters in a battle to grab market share for sofosbuvir, a miracle cure that Gilead Sciences Inc. sells in the U.S. as Sovaldi at a retail price of $1,000 a pill. Gilead licensed 11 Indian companies to make generic versions, and they sealed marketing deals with others. Competition has been so fierce it’s driven down the cost and spurred thousands to be tested.</p>
<p>Manufacturers “want more and more patients” and are willing to wheel and deal on price, said Nirmaljeet Malhi, a gastroenterologist at Apollo Hospitals in Ludhiana, about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Lande Rode. “If one agrees to it, the others will also have to. It’s a race where one cannot say no — because then they’re going to lose the business.”</p>
<p>The companies sponsor screening drives, hand out free test kits to hospitals and offer bulk discounts to entire villages. Sofosbuvir was cheap by most any standard when it hit the market in Punjab at $10 in March. Then the cost kept dropping, to as low as $4.29, and doctors predict it will continue to fall.</p>
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<p>That’s in contrast to the situation in the U.S., where Gilead set off a firestorm in December 2013 by<a title="Behind the $1,000 Pill, a Formula for Profits Inside Gilead (1)" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-10/behind-the-1-000-pill-a-formula-for-profits-inside-gilead">listing</a> Sovaldi at $84,000 for a 12-week course regimen. It’s a game-changing drug, often wiping out an infection in three months, and without the debilitating side effects of earlier treatments that took longer. Still, the cost started the latest backlash over high medicine prices. Dozens of state Medicaid plans limited access to the drug, and a U.S. Senate report chastised the company. Gilead, which has said it priced Sovaldi responsibly and thoughtfully, is giving insurers and bulk purchasers discounts.</p>
<p>Like others in the industry, the company arranges to make life-saving cures available in some parts of the world for far <a title="The U.S. Pays a Lot More for Top Drugs Than Other Countries" href="http://bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-drug-prices/">less</a>; laws and pressure introduced so-called tiered pricing after expensive anti-HIV treatments became available in the ’90s and reduced deaths in rich countries and not poor ones. In exchange for a 7 percent cut of sales, Gilead gave companies including Mylan NV, Cipla Ltd. and Natco Pharma Ltd. rights to make generics for distribution in 101 developing nations where hepatitis C is often untreated and $1,000 is more than people might earn in a year. The company wants to “foster competition in the marketplace” in low-income areas, according to spokesman Nathan Kaiser.</p>
<p>Now there are more than a dozen sofosbuvir versions for sale in India. “The market has become highly competitive in the last six months with close to 20 companies launching their own,” said M.V. Ramana, executive vice president and head of branded markets at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.</p>
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<p>The sofosbuvir rivals are aggressive about expanding the customer base by making the pills affordable and diagnosis easier. Dr. Reddy’s, for example, set up a venture with lender Arogya Finance to offer no-interest loans for patients, and Abbott Laboratories worked with French medical equipment company Echosens SAS to supply Indian hospitals with 13 ultrasound machines that determine the level of fibrosis, or hardening, without a liver biopsy.</p>
<p>A main benefit of the competition, according to doctors, is that so many are being tested for hepatitis C, which can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer. As many as 150 million people have the disease, according to the World Health Organization, including at least 12 million in India. Common modes of transmission are tainted medical equipment and reuse of syringes.</p>
<h3>Liver Scans</h3>
<p>Some of the highest infection rates are in Lande Rode and other villages of Punjab’s cotton-growing Malwa belt, where 30 percent to 50 percent of the population might have the virus, said Gagandeep Goyal, a gastroenterologist at Global Healthcare, a hospital sandwiched between an Adidas store and a Vodafone outlet in Bathinda, the fifth-largest city in Punjab.</p>
<p>There are expenses beyond the drug itself. Villagers are encouraged to go to hospitals in cities for exams to determine the amount of virus in the blood and the exact strain, and scans to see the amount of scarring on the liver. At Malhi’s hospital the charge for a liver scan is 3,500 rupees ($52.86).</p>
<p>Malhi said pharmaceutical companies might be persuaded to help defray these costs too. “If bulk treatment is required — say, in a village where 200 people are positive — they might give more favorable pricing to that village for complete treatment,” he said. As for the drug itself, he said, if he tests 20,000 people and finds 2,000 infected, he might be able to negotiate to get the cost of a 12-week course reduced by a third to $1,000.</p>
<p>“Where in the U.S., you get one pill, here you get an entire treatment,” he said. “People in these villages can afford this — possibly everybody can.”</p>
<p>The disease is a topic of conversation for the elders at the tailor’s shop in Lande Rode, a cluster of concrete houses dotting dirt roads and surrounded by rice and wheat fields. Baldev Singh, a farmer and official of the Sikh temple, said he reckoned 80 percent of the village is infected.</p>
<p>Singh’s family is like many. He was successfully treated with interferon injections last year, before the antiviral pill was available. He looks older than his 45 years, his beard fully gray and his eyes hidden behind sunglasses, even inside the tailor’s dimly lit shop. His wife, brother and 16-year-old nephew have hepatitis C; the nephew is taking sofosbuvir financed by a loan. But Singh hasn’t had his teenage sons tested yet — and his wife takes an Ayurvedic medicine whose ingredients include capers and wild chicory. Singh said he thinks her viral count is too low to warrant the expense of generic Sovaldi.</p>
<p>“And anyway,” he said, “the price is supposed to come down a little more, right?”</p>
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</div> Obamacare Body Antenna Being Developed For Long-Term Patient Monitoring’tag:12160.info,2015-05-28:2649739:Topic:15612702015-05-28T23:48:02.101ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<h1 class="article-title">Obamacare Body Antenna Being Developed For Long-Term Patient Monitoring’</h1>
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<div class="entry-content"><p>(<a class="url fn n" title="View all posts by Elizabeth Harrington" href="http://freebeacon.com/author/elizabeth-harrington/" rel="author">Elizabeth Harrington</a>) The National Science Foundation (NSF) is helping fund the creation of an implantable antenna for health care, which could be used for “long-term patient monitoring.”</p>
<p>The government has so far given $5,070 for a graduate fellowship to work on the project, which begins June 1.</p>
<p>The project is being financed in collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea to create a high frequency antenna that can be permanently implanted under a person’s skin.</p>
<p>“Antennas operating near or inside the human body are important for a number of applications, including healthcare,” a <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1514937&HistoricalAwards=false" target="_blank">grant</a> for the project said. “Implantable medical devices such as cardiac pacemakers and retinal implants are a growing feature of modern healthcare, and implantable antennas for these devices are necessary to monitor battery level and device health, to upload and download data used in patient monitoring, and more.”</p>
<p>The grant said that an implantable device could be used for “long-term patient monitoring” and “biometric tracking,” or using technology to verify a person’s identity.</p>
<p>“Despite their potential use in long-term patient monitoring and wireless biometric tracking there is limited research on [Ultra High Frequency] UHF [radio-frequency identification] RFID for insertion in high-loss human body environments,” the grant said. “This research will greatly benefit from procedures already in place at Dr. You Chung Chung’s antenna lab at Daegu University in Daegu, Korea.”</p>
<p>The project will test different types of ultra high frequency antenna designs that can be “inserted under the skin for a permanent application.”</p>
<p>“Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID tag antennas are printed using conductive ink and have found increased applications due to advantages such as minimal cost, low maintenance, good tag read range, and ability to operate without an integrated battery,” the grant said.</p>
<p>Funding is being distributed through the NSF’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) for U.S. Graduate Students.</p>
<p>The NSF told the<em> Free Beacon </em>that the project is working on how to make a temporary tattoo-like device that can be implanted under the skin.</p>
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<p>“This award is a fellowship supporting a U.S. graduate student to conduct research in Korea this summer with a known expert in his field, enhancing the fellows’s research and supporting his professional development,” said Jessica Arriens, a public affairs specialist for the NSF.</p>
<p>“This specific award supports the student to conduct fundamental bio-engineering research on in-body antennas, which are used to communicate with medical devices implanted inside the body (a pacemaker, for example),” she said. “Those devices use antennas to record everything from battery levels to patient health. This fellow is studying how to make more resilient antennas, sort of like temporary tattoos that can be implanted underneath the skin and better relay information from implanted medical devices.”</p>
<p>“The research could ultimately help improve a variety of health areas, since many areas use implanted medical devices: defibrillators, neural recording devices, cochlear and retinal implants,” Arriens said. “Long-term just refers to the fact that implanted medical devices are, often, not a short-term patient option (think of a pacemaker or ear implant, for example – patients live with those long-term).”</p>
<p>Arriens said the EAPSI program allows graduate students to “gain valuable research experience, plus experience working and collaborating in a foreign country, and they bring back all this knowledge to the U.S.”</p>
<p>The NSF funding will provide the student’s airfare and a stipend for eight weeks of research in Korea. The National Research Foundation of Korea will provide funding for the student’s living expenses and lab expenses.</p>
<p>“NSF’s investment in EAPSI is matched roughly dollar for dollar by the investment of our international counterparts,” she said.</p>
<p>Arriens said additional funding could be provided only if the NSF approves a separate project proposal submitted by the student.</p>
<p><strong>Update, 4:05 P.M.:</strong> <em>This post has been updated with comment from the NSF.</em></p>
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</div> Obamacare: Again, An Admission You Were SCAMMEDtag:12160.info,2015-03-08:2649739:Topic:15416812015-03-08T14:36:24.027ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p><em><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/30/obama-adviser-jonathan-gruber-in-200-obamacare-will-not-be-affordable/" target="_blank">And where are you, Boobus…</a></em></p>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Obamacare: Again, An Admission You Were SCAMMED</h1>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/30/obama-adviser-jonathan-gruber-in-200-obamacare-will-not-be-affordable/" target="_blank">And where are you, Boobus Americanus</a>? You’re not in the streets. You’re not picketing both the White House and The House of Representatives, nor the Senate. You’re not in front of Pelosi’s home, or Boehner’s, or any of the other Congresscritters.</em></p>
<p><em>You’re going to get drunk tonight, aren’t you?</em></p>
<p><em>Good — go celebrate your <strong>consent</strong> to being robbed. Oh sure, you were robbed by a thief in the night <strong>originally</strong>, but now you’ve consented to the <strong>continued </strong>theft that flows into the coffers of the medical and insurance “industries”, leveraging your fear of death and disability to ply their trade. This isn’t up for debate any more. Everyone now <strong>knows</strong> that Obamacare was passed under <strong>intentionally</strong> false pretense. In other words you were <strong>suckered</strong> on something that comprises <strong>more than one quarter</strong> of Federal Spending and nearly <strong>one dollar in five</strong> spent through the economy, which all ultimately comes <strong>from you.</strong></em></p>
<blockquote><p>“I wish that President Obama could have stood up and said, ‘You know, I don’t know if this bill is going to control costs. It might, it might not. We’re doing our best. But let me tell you what it’s going to do…” Gruber said on a San Francisco podcast in 2012.</p>
<p><strong>“If he could make that speech? Instead, he says ‘I’m going to pass a bill that will lower your health care costs.’ That sells. Now, I wish the world was different. I wish people cared about the 50 million uninsured in America…But, you know, they don’t. And I think, once again, I’m amazed politically that we got this bill through.”</strong></p>
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<p>You were <strong>intentionally</strong> lied to and financially raped.</p>
<p>This occurred because the limits of claiming you were going to die and thus must give up ever more of your earnings on a more-or-less voluntary basis (with only the threat of bankruptcy) was running into its natural limit. There was the possibility of mass defections and establishment of alternatives, along with shunning (or worse) aimed at health providers and employees within the industry.</p>
<p>The “industry” responded through <strong>intentional </strong>deception promulgated by the government to sucker you into allowing them to use <strong>force</strong> on a pre-emptive basis in order to extract even more of what you earn, thereby cutting off your option to erect the middle finger <em>and increase the fear of retaliation, this time by government thugs with guns, should you try to resist their <strong>theft</strong>.</em></p>
<p>Come talk to me about why I should give a damn about whatever your pet whine is <strong>when, and only when, you’ll stand up and do something about the fact that fully one fifth of every dollar spent in this country is <em>stolen</em> as a direct consequence of what has occurred here — and which now has been turned into a theft that you cannot opt out of as the government will now fine you if you refuse to participate</strong>.</p>
<p>In other words ordinary theft by deception has now been turned into <em><strong>armed robbery.</strong></em></p>
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</div> Millions to owe Obamacare tax penaltytag:12160.info,2015-01-29:2649739:Topic:15320622015-01-29T02:23:09.777ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Were you uninsured in 2014? It's time to pay the piper!</span></p>
<p>Some 3 million to 6 million Americans will have to pay an <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/27/news/economy/obamacare-sign-ups/index.html?iid=EL">Obamacare</a> tax penalty for not having health insurance last year, Treasury officials said Wednesday. It's the first time they have given estimates for how many people will be subject to a fine.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">Were you uninsured in 2014? It's time to pay the piper!</span></p>
<p>Some 3 million to 6 million Americans will have to pay an <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/27/news/economy/obamacare-sign-ups/index.html?iid=EL">Obamacare</a> tax penalty for not having health insurance last year, Treasury officials said Wednesday. It's the first time they have given estimates for how many people will be subject to a fine.</p>
<p>The penalty is $95, or 1% of income above a certain threshold (roughly $20,000 for a couple). So you could end up owing the IRS a lot of money.</p>
<p>Take a married couple with $100,000 in income - their bill comes to $797, according to the <a href="http://taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/acacalculator.cfm" target="_blank">Tax Policy Center ACA penalty calculator</a>.</p>
<p>The<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/21/news/economy/obamacare-penalty/?iid=EL"> penalty</a> for remaining uninsured rises to the larger of $325 or 2% of income in 2015.</p>
<p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/27/news/economy/obamacare-sign-ups/index.html?iid=EL"><span class="inStoryHeading">Related: Obamacare 2.0 sign ups hit 9.5 million</span></a></p>
<p>As millions of Americans sit down in coming weeks to compile their tax returns, they'll have to contend with Obamacare's health insurance mandate for the first time.</p>
<p>Some three-quarters of the nation's 150 million taxpayers have health insurance through their jobs or government programs and will simply have to check a box on the Form 1040.</p>
<p>Another 15 million to 30 million people will request and be granted an exemption to the mandate by filing Form 8965. Those who aren't subject to the insurance requirement include undocumented immigrants, low-income Americans and those for whom insurance premiums were more than 8% of their household income.</p>
<p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/02/pf/taxes/obamacare-income-tax-subsidies/index.html?iid=EL"><span class="inStoryHeading">Related: Obamacare tax surprise looming</span></a></p>
<p>Finally, between 4.5 million and 7.5 million taxpayers received subsidies for insurance premiums when they signed up for coverage on Obamacare exchanges. They will have to use Form 8962 to reconcile their actual 2014 income with the amount they estimated when they applied for a policy in late 2013 or early 2014.</p>
<p>Those who underestimated their income either will receive smaller tax refunds or will owe the IRS money.</p>
<p>Treasury officials declined to forecast how many people may be in this situation. But H&R Block projects 3.4 million taxpayers will have to pay back part of their premiums.</p>
<p>Of course, those who overestimated their 2014 income may get a healthier-than-expected refund. And some will see no change.</p>
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<p></p> ObamaCare System Quietly Passing Personal Data to Outside Websitestag:12160.info,2015-01-21:2649739:Topic:15303892015-01-21T12:00:40.060ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p>Remember all those promises about how the ObamaCare website, HealthCare.gov, would be a veritable Fort Knox of data integrity, a super-secure environment where your personal information would be treated like delicate, priceless treasure? Never mind all that!</p>
<p>It turns out the system is passing <em>tons </em>of our personal data along to Obama’s business partners. We can all wait with breathless anticipation to learn how much of it has been intercepted by hackers.</p>
<p>Now, if data integrity is the broken promise of ObamaCare that really bugs you, you must have slept through the catastrophic detonation of so many other promises. You also haven’t been paying close enough attention to how Big Government operates.</p>
<p>It’s all about <em>control, </em>and data is essential to control. The more your rulers know about you, the better they can predict or manipulate your actions. It was inevitable that data harvested from ObamaCare applications would be stored and put to later use. It was also inevitable we’d be told it was all for our own good, just part of improving the customer experience, not really so very different from what Amazon.com does…</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.pulse.me/ap/31490a20926d4ed3b98ff2d0ed8fc81d">Associated Press</a> reports, with a little dash of irony, on the discovery that “the government’s health insurance website is quietly passing along consumers’ personal data to outside websites, just as President Barack Obama is calling for stronger cybersecurity protections.” Of course, Obama would see no contradiction there. Data handed out to those he deems worthy is as secure as it needs to be.</p>
<blockquote><p>It works like this: When you apply for coverage on HealthCare.gov, dozens of data companies may be able to tell that you are on the site. Some can even glean details such as your age, income, ZIP code, whether you smoke or if you are pregnant.</p>
<p>HealthCare.gov contains embedded connections to multiple data firms that the administration says generate analysis to improve the consumer experience. Officials say outside firms barred are from using the data to further their own business interests.</p>
<p>Still, ever-evolving technology allows for individual Internet users to be tracked, building profiles coveted by advertisers.</p>
<p>Connections to third-party tech firms were documented by technology experts who analyzed HealthCare.gov, and confirmed by The Associated Press. There is no evidence that personal information from HealthCare.gov has been misused, but the high number of outside connections is raising questions.</p>
<p>“As I look at vendors on a website…they could be another potential point of failure,” said corporate cybersecurity consultant Theresa Payton. “Vendor management can often be the weakest link in your privacy and security chain.”</p>
<p>A former White House chief information officer under President George W. Bush, she said the large number of outside connections on HealthCare.gov seems like “overkill” and makes it “kind of an outlier” among government websites.</p>
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<p>Oh, relax, you big worrywarts! It’s impossible for your almighty rulers to “misuse” your personal data, since by definition any use they can imagine for it must be appropriate, and anyone they decide to give it to must be trustworthy. They define what is right, so they cannot be guilty of wrongdoing. QED.</p>
<p>Also, you can save your nasty little questions about security, because the band of super-geniuses who gave this website such a memorable launch are not interested in discussing how they can guarantee data integrity, and even if they were so inclined, any discussion of security measures could compromise them. Again, QED. It’s all QED. Quit struggling and enjoy the New Normal, where so many of the important decisions in life will be made for you by politicians and their top supporters.</p>
<p>Things got a little sticky when an Administration spokesman assured the Associated Press that “HealthCare.gov comports with standards set by the federal National Institute for Standards and Technology,” but NIST actually cautions against the kind of random data collection and profile-building HealthCare.gov engages in.</p>
<p>There’s quite a bit of it going on, too. The data-mining experts who worked with the Associated Press seemed a bit stunned at how much information was being disseminated. They found about <em>fifty </em>third-party connections invisibly built into HealthCare.gov. AP’s in-house experts found “dozens of websites were accessed behind the scenes” during a mere 10-minute session at HealthCare.gov, including “Google’s data-analytics service, Twitter, Facebook, and a host of online advertising providers.” Some of those connections appeared to be paying very close attention to what HealthCare.gov users were doing.</p>
<p>Certainly such harvested information can be employed to improve a user’s online experience, but the level of “improvement” implied by the list of inquiries envisioned by the AP is downright creepy: “Have you been researching a chronic illness like coronary artery blockage? Do you shop online for smoking-cessation aids? Are you investigating genetic markers for a certain type of breast cancer? Are you seeking help for financial problems, or for an addiction?”</p>
<p>Even if the harvested data is never used for anything except personalized health-care advertising, it could prove unnerving for HealthCare.gov users, especially as their new Big Doctor in Washington becomes more concerned with “improving” their lifestyles to reduce health care costs. And it’s all being done without our knowledge, or permission, because Big Doc thinks we gave our individual dignity away forever on the night of the 2008 presidential election.</p>
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</div> Top Obamacare Chief Resigns In Wake of Phony Figures Fiascotag:12160.info,2015-01-18:2649739:Topic:15295102015-01-18T11:45:46.964ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<h2>Embattled Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner is resigning her post overseeing Obamacare just months after she <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/09/19/obama-admin-admits-obamacare-figures-inflated-revises-down-700-000/">admitted </a>that the Obama White House’s highly publicized 8 million Obamacare…</h2>
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<h2>Embattled Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner is resigning her post overseeing Obamacare just months after she <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/09/19/obama-admin-admits-obamacare-figures-inflated-revises-down-700-000/">admitted </a>that the Obama White House’s highly publicized 8 million Obamacare enrollment figure was inflated by <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/11/22/obama-admin-admits-it-inflated-obamacare-numbers-by-1-3-million/">at least 1.3 million</a>.</h2>
<p>“The mistake we made is unacceptable,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. “I will be communicating that clearly throughout the department.”</p>
<p>Tavenner sent the House Oversight and Government Reform committee a letter blaming the Obama administration’s unfinished back-end system for the inflated figures.</p>
<p>“Once the automated system for effectuated enrollment is functional, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be able to more easily report the number who has paid their premiums,” wrote Tavenner.</p>
<p>Tavenner, whose agency <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/marilyn-tavenner-obamacare_n_6481890.html">spends more</a> than the Pentagon each year, was also a key figure overseeing the busted Obamacare website that cost U.S. taxpayers at least <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-24/obamacare-website-costs-exceed-2-billion-study-finds.html">$2.1 billion</a>. Tavenner later apologized for the HealthCare.gov disaster.</p>
<p>Tavenner will leave in February and be replaced by the agency’s number two official, Andrew Slavitt.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/16/top-obamacare-chief-resigns-in-wake-of-phony-figures-fiasco/" target="_blank">SOURCE HERE</a></p> Caught on Camera: Obamacare Architect Admits Deceiving Americans to Pass Lawtag:12160.info,2014-11-10:2649739:Topic:15156662014-11-10T14:35:48.975ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
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<p>Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber bragging about deceiving the American people, who he thinks are stupid.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/09/caught-camera-obamacare-architect-admits-deceiving-americans-pass-law/">http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/09/caught-camera-obamacare-architect-admits-deceiving-americans-pass-law/</a></p>
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<p>Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber bragging about deceiving the American people, who he thinks are stupid.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/09/caught-camera-obamacare-architect-admits-deceiving-americans-pass-law/">http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/09/caught-camera-obamacare-architect-admits-deceiving-americans-pass-law/</a></p> ‘Critical’ Vulnerablity Found In HealthCare.gov Securitytag:12160.info,2014-09-23:2649739:Topic:15050642014-09-23T23:55:49.544ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p><strong>WASHINGTON (CBS NEWS/AP)</strong> – According to a report being released Tuesday, a critical vulnerability was found when the government’s own watchdogs tried to hack into HealthCare.gov earlier this year.</p>
<p>The report, conducted by the Health and Human Services Department inspector general who focuses on health care fraud, is a mixed review for the federal website that serves as the portal to taxpayer-subsidized health plans for Americans.</p>
<p>CBS News reported that a…</p>
<p><strong>WASHINGTON (CBS NEWS/AP)</strong> – According to a report being released Tuesday, a critical vulnerability was found when the government’s own watchdogs tried to hack into HealthCare.gov earlier this year.</p>
<p>The report, conducted by the Health and Human Services Department inspector general who focuses on health care fraud, is a mixed review for the federal website that serves as the portal to taxpayer-subsidized health plans for Americans.</p>
<p>CBS News reported that a weakness was found by the “white hat” or ethical hackers from the inspector general’s office. However, when they tried to exploit it like a malicious hacker would, they were blocked by the system’s defenses.</p>
<p>The public version of the report was condensed and a heavily edited summary of detailed findings were delivered to the Obama administration.</p>
<p>To bolster security on the site, more work needs to be done, the report concluded. The congressional Government Accountability Office released similar conclusions after its own review last week.</p>
<p>This is the second independent security assessment in as many weeks to find problems.</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/09/23/critical-vulnerablity-found-in-healthcare-gov-security/">http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/09/23/critical-vulnerablity-found-in-healthcare-gov-security/</a></p> Woman in class-action lawsuit against the Nevada Health Exchange dies because of enrollment issues and a lack of coveragetag:12160.info,2014-07-03:2649739:Topic:14809522014-07-03T14:34:13.116ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<div class="field-byline label-hidden vcard"><div class="fn byline even">By JENNIFER ROBISON<br></br> LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL</div>
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<p>Time ran out for Linda Rolain.</p>
<p>The Las Vegas woman died Monday, less than two weeks after her family went public with details about Nevada Health Link insurance exchange enrollment troubles that kept her from treatment in January for an aggressive brain tumor.</p>
<p>Rolain was one of about 150 Nevadans suing Nevada Health Link contractor Xerox for…</p>
<div class="field-byline label-hidden vcard"><div class="fn byline even">By JENNIFER ROBISON<br/> LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL</div>
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<p>Time ran out for Linda Rolain.</p>
<p>The Las Vegas woman died Monday, less than two weeks after her family went public with details about Nevada Health Link insurance exchange enrollment troubles that kept her from treatment in January for an aggressive brain tumor.</p>
<p>Rolain was one of about 150 Nevadans suing Nevada Health Link contractor Xerox for enrollment mix-ups that left them without the health insurance they paid for.</p>
<p>Rolain is the first to die of complications from an illness said to have gone untreated for lack of coverage. But observers close to her case say she may not be the last.</p>
<p>“We are worried that this is the first of many Nevadans who have life-threatening issues that may end up in such tragic circumstances. We urge all Nevadans to verify that their insurance is active and in place in light of the many problems that hundreds, if not thousands, of Nevadans have gone through,” Rolain’s law firm, Callister, Immerman and Associates, said in a statement.</p>
<p>More Here: <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/woman-class-action-lawsuit-against-xerox-dies">http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/woman-class-action-lawsuit-against-xerox-dies</a></p>