{"id":18547,"date":"2013-08-06T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18547"},"modified":"2013-08-07T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T16:43:23","slug":"ready-for-your-obamacare-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18547\/ready-for-your-obamacare-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Your ObamaCare ID?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just eight weeks to go until ObamaCare\u2019s October 1 enrollment, the Health and Human Services department is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=209221350\" target=\"_blank\">scrambling to meet the deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its first order of business: A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">log-in portal<\/a> where users can create a personal account.<\/p>\n<p>In a few clicks you can get a sense of the kind of information you&#8217;ll be sharing via your account: family size, personal income, health history, age, gender and employment status.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, some level of government likely has access to most if not all of this information, but it is ObamaCare&#8217;s user account that will, for the first time, house all of it in one place.<\/p>\n<p>It will then be the Federal Data Hub&#8217;s job to share this information with the applicable state-based insurance exchange, and check your entries against another federal database to ensure accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve written before, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1910-obamacares-data-hub-should-be-its-death-knell\" target=\"_blank\">the two federal databases will attract attention from hackers and identity thieves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ObamaCare user account creates a third inviting target.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your privacy, while it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just eight weeks to go until ObamaCare\u2019s 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&#8217;ll be sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,3074,3007,3308,1829,35,4160,4214],"class_list":["post-18547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-cost","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-premium","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18553,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions\/18553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}