Obamacare Exchanges Months Behind In Testing IT Data Security

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from a Reuters report: "The federal government is months behind in testing data security for the main pillar of Obamacare: allowing Americans to buy health insurance on state exchanges due to open by October 1. The missed deadlines have pushed the government's decision on whether information technology security is up to snuff to exactly one day before that crucial date, the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general said in a report. As a result, experts say, the exchanges might open with security flaws or, possibly but less likely, be delayed.'They've removed their margin for error,' said Deven McGraw, director of the health privacy project at the non-profit Center for Democracy & Technology. 'There is huge pressure to get (the exchanges) up and running on time, but if there is a security incident they are done. It would be a complete disaster from a PR viewpoint.' The most likely serious security breach would be identity theft, in which a hacker steals the social security numbers and other information people provide when signing up for insurance."

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What a clusterf**k.

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Obamacare is the biggest disaster that ever has hit the United States. You think fraud and abuse are rampant in Medicare/Medicaid? Just wait. You will see fraud and waste the likes of which have never been seen or contemplated before. Forcing successful people to pay for insurance for the dregs of society is just wrong. Vote this man out of office.