{"id":19859,"date":"2014-01-02T19:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19859"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:09:56","slug":"house-gop-obamacare-a-national-security-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19859\/house-gop-obamacare-a-national-security-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP: ObamaCare a National Security Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are getting ready to ring in the New Year by focusing on Obamacare\u2019s security risks.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve written previously, personal information entered into an account on Healthcare.gov \u2013 the federal Obamacare insurance exchange \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19442\/obama-admin-downplaying-security-risks-on-healthcare-gov\/ \" target=\"_blank\">may not be protected from identity thieves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, \u201cUnder current policy, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services is tasked with deciding whether there is a risk of harm and whether individuals need to be notified whenever a security breach occurs,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/01\/02\/think-target-was-bad-republicans-plan-votes-on-obamacare-security-legislation\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cRepublican lawmakers argue that the notification should not be optional.<\/p>\n<p>A memo authored by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) calls for the chamber to vote on bills that would require HHS and its affiliates to notify the public if a security breach occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are crying foul, but their opposition is self-serving. The only reason not to support the change to mandatory notice is to preserve the false sense of security that no notice means that all is safe.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama once promised that his is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/02\/14\/obama_this_is_the_most_transparent_administration_in_history.html \" target=\"_blank\">the most transparent administration in history<\/a>.\u201d The least he could do is apply that promise to the law that bears his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are getting ready to ring in the New Year by focusing on Obamacare\u2019s security risks. As I\u2019ve written previously, personal information entered into an account on Healthcare.gov \u2013 the federal Obamacare insurance exchange \u2013 may not be protected from identity thieves. Amazingly, \u201cUnder current policy, an agency within the Department of Health and [&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":[3007,3308,4340,1829,24,35,826],"class_list":["post-19859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-healthcare-gov","tag-insurance","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19859","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=19859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19863,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19859\/revisions\/19863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}