{"id":19501,"date":"2013-11-20T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19501"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:55:26","slug":"security-experts-agree-americans-should-not-use-healthcare-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19501\/security-experts-agree-americans-should-not-use-healthcare-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Experts Agree: Americans Should Not Use Healthcare.gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All four of the cyber security experts that testified before a House committee yesterday agreed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2013\/11\/19\/healthcaregov-already-compromised-security-expert-says\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Americans should not use Healthcare.gov<\/a> until its security features are enhanced, or in some cases, built.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/11\/20\/us-usa-healthcare-security-idUSBRE9AI0NR20131120 \" target=\"_blank\">the website should be shut down<\/a> until the security problems are fixed; preferably by rebuilding the site from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>While that may sound drastic, an Obama administration official responsible for developing Healthcare.gov says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/11\/tech-chief-didnt-see-march-obamacare-memo-100058.html\" target=\"_blank\">up to 40 percent of the site isn\u2019t finished yet<\/a> \u2013 including the parts that deliver subsidies to insurance companies on behalf of qualified Obamacare enrollees.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not like the roughly 60 percent of the website that is completed is running smoothly, as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discovered when it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/11\/20\/obamacare_website_crashes_while_sebelius_tries_to_sign_someone_up.html\" target=\"_blank\">crashed while she was demonstrating its (in)effectiveness<\/a> to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Bombarded as we are with the epic ineptitude of this fiasco, it\u2019s hard to improve on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/11\/19\/krauthammer_on_obamacare_this_is_a_level_of_incompetence_that_is_indescribable.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Krauthammer\u2019s sentiments<\/a>: \u201c\u2026this is a level of incompetence that is indescribable. And it stands to reason. We have a president who never ran anything. He was never a governor. He never ran a hot dog stand in his life and he presumed that his team could remake one-sixth of the American [economy] and this is what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brace yourself. There is much more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four of the cyber security experts that testified before a House committee yesterday agreed that Americans should not use Healthcare.gov until its security features are enhanced, or in some cases, built. Three of the four said the website should be shut down until the security problems are fixed; preferably by rebuilding the site from [&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":[3308,4340,1829,35,42,826],"class_list":["post-19501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-sebelius","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501","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=19501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19507,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19501\/revisions\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}