With just eight weeks to go until ObamaCare’s October 1 enrollment, the Health and Human Services department is scrambling to meet the deadline.
Its first order of business: A log-in portal where users can create a personal account.
In a few clicks you can get a sense of the kind of information you’ll be sharing via your account: family size, personal income, health history, age, gender and employment status.
Yes, some level of government likely has access to most if not all of this information, but it is ObamaCare’s user account that will, for the first time, house all of it in one place.
It will then be the Federal Data Hub’s job to share this information with the applicable state-based insurance exchange, and check your entries against another federal database to ensure accuracy.
As I’ve written before, the two federal databases will attract attention from hackers and identity thieves.
The ObamaCare user account creates a third inviting target.
Enjoy your privacy, while it lasts.
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