Healthcare.gov Links To Subsidy Calculator Made By DNC-Ally UPDATE: Calculations Are Based On Out Of Date Info?

Healthcare.gov, the website our federal government spent half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds in developing openly and transparently – evidently links to a private not-for-profit business to calculate insurance subsidies.

The page in question resides here and links to The Kaiser Family Foundation.  The interesting part of all of this is that the data culled from Kaiser Family Foundation is actually publicly available data.  So why didn’t Healthcare.gov just do this themselves?  Were they trying to save us tenth of a nickel?

Absolutely bizarre.

UPDATE:

A left of center blogger claims that the calculations made by this subsidy calculator aren’t even correct.  According to the author, they’re in fact tremendously outdated.

Via: Weasel Zippers

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Morning Bell: The Obamacare Scams Are Already Starting

Heritage warned that the new Obamacare insurance exchanges could threaten your privacy—and it’s already happening, before the exchanges are even open.

In a new report, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee presented these shocking findings:

there are already numerous reports of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of people’s confusion about ObamaCare. According to recent news reports, scam artists are calling individuals and asking for information to sign them up for their “ObamaCare card,” are asking seniors for their personal information to verify their Medicare and Social Security status and are going door-to-door threatening people with prison time if they do not sign up on the spot. The Administration is keenly aware of these reports and concerns, but has thus far failed to take appropriate measures.

Even when it’s not malicious, the new Obamacare system—employing “navigators” who aren’t run through background checks or adequately trained—opens up a host of opportunities for identity theft. Last week, an employee of Minnesota’s insurance exchange (MNsure) emailed out the names and Social Security numbers of 2,400 insurance agents. The insurance broker who received the email said, “If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?”

Indeed.

Via: The Foundry

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