Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy"

realized writes "The Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has a hidden terms of service that is not shown to people when they sign up. The hidden terms, only viewable if you 'view source' on the site, says that the user has 'no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system.' Sadly, the taxpayer-funded website still does not work for most people, so it's hard to confirm – though when it's fixed in two months, we should finally be able to see it." Note: As the article points out, that phrasing is "not visible to users and obviously not intended as part of the terms and conditions." So users shouldn't worry that they've actually, accidentally agreed to any terms more onerous than the ones they can read on the signup page, but it's an interesting inclusion. What's the last EULA you read thoroughly?

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Re:How do we get Congress to sign up?

[CQDX]

This should be the the Republican's argument. Obamacare should be the law for EVERYONE from the President on down. No exceptions. Then we'd see are real effort to get a healthcare system that actually works. And the same should go for income taxes. Every representative should be required to do their own taxes (not hire a CPA) and each should be subject to an audit once each elected term. I guarantee that the tax code would be greatly simplified AND fewer politicians would become career politicians.

Re:How do we get Congress to sign up?

[Anonymous Coward]

This has been the Republican stance forever. Other than the first 2 days of shutdown, this is also EXACTLY what they have asked for and nothing else.

1. No subsidies for Congress
2. No individual mandate for a year since that is what employers and Obama's buddies get.

You should be wondering how this has been their demands for 2 weeks straight and you hadn't heard about it.