Sunday, August 18, 2013

Attorneys general raise privacy concerns over ObamaCare navigators (video) - The Hill's Healthwatch

Attorneys general raise privacy concerns over ObamaCare navigators (video) - The Hill's Healthwatch: "Bondi said that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making it easier for someone to be hired as a so-called navigator, cutting back on background checks and eliminating a fingerprinting requirement, which could make it easier for a person’s private information to fall into the wrong hands.
“Because of time constraints, HHS [is] cutting back on the requirement to become a navigator, meaning they're not going to be doing background checks.
They're not going to be fingerprinting these people,” said Bondi in an interview with Fox.

“And it's more than navigators. It's people that assist the navigators.
Now, these navigators will have our consumers throughout the country's most personal and private information — tax return information, Social Security information. 
And our biggest fear, of course, is identity theft.”

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