Experts Highlight Secretive Obamacare Implementation, Lax Oversight

Medical industry experts criticized the Obama administration’s secret implementation of Obamacare’s “data hub” in a congressional oversight hearing Wednesday afternoon investigating the security of the law’s infrastructure.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee held the latest in a series of hearings on the security of the cyber infrastructure the Obama administration is building to undergird the law.

The “data hub,” which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is building, will route information from multiple federal agencies to the state-based health insurance exchanges. Stephen Parente, a health information technology expert at the University of Minnesota, called the data hub “the largest personal data integration government project in the history of the Republic.”

“No one has said how the data hub will actually operate to ensure no privacy breaches as well as safeguard against identity fraud,” Parente said.

Subcommittee chairman Patrick Meehan (R., Pa.) warned against “very sophisticated actors, including state actors,” that might seek to penetrate the law’s infrastructure to steal the personal information of American citizens buying health insurance.

“The fact that only a handful of individuals know truly how this will operate may preserve some security … but it could also be viewed as a failure,” Parente said.

Via: WFB

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