Report: US Government Worse Than All Major Industries On Cyber Security (reuters.com)

schwit1 quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. federal, state and local government agencies rank in last place in cyber security when compared against 17 major private industries, including transportation, retail and healthcare, according to a new report released Thursday. The analysis, from venture-backed security risk benchmarking startup SecurityScorecard, measured the relative security health of government and industries across 10 categories, including vulnerability to malware infections, exposure rates of passwords and susceptibility to social engineering, such as an employee using corporate account information on a public social network. Educations, telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries also ranked low, the report found. Information services, construction, food and technology were among the top performers. And we are supposed to trust them with healthcare? This report comes after President Obama recently unveiled a commission of private, public and academic experts to bolster the U.S. cyber security sector.

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Can we turn the hyperbole down to 10?

[damn_registrars]

The line

And we are supposed to trust them with healthcare?

Is beyond absurd. Anyone who read the slightest bit of the Affordable Care Act knows that it does not put government in charge of health care. In fact, it did almost exactly the opposite of that and gave the insurance industry - which was already disgustingly powerful - even more power. The only function of healthcare.gov is to connect the (now obligate) consumer with a company who will sell them a policy.

In other words the ACA is a license for the health insurance industry to print money. They quite nearly had it before, but now it has been fully formalized.

Re: Can we turn the hyperbole down to 10?

[damn_registrars]

It's that many Democrats want to give control of healthcare to the government.

First of all, that is a pointless claim for several reasons. One, it is pointless because it won't happen. Two, it is a pointless claim because there are no democrats currently in Washington who are willing to propose anything that even slightly resembles an initiative to "give control of healthcare to the government".

Second, what do you even mean by "give control of healthcare to the government"? Even the most socialized of all medical systems still give the physicians at least as much autonomy as our system does.

In other words, you are just parroting standard slashdot conservative FUD.