Obamacare requires every visit to a doctor, every diagnosis, every X-ray and every prescription to be recorded and kept electronically. The federal government can then keep tabs on everyone’s medical care. It’s sensitive stuff, and government bureaucrats have no idea how to keep it safe.
The administration admitted last week that a hacker breezed through the defenses of the Healthcare.gov website and installed malicious software, apparently to lay the groundwork for retrieving health insurance information from the repository.
The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services had solemnly assured everyone that the billion-dollar Obamacare repository was impenetrable. Now we learn that it is about as impenetrable as the hull and watertight compartments of the unsinkable Titanic.
The bureaucrats managing the Obamacare repository are clearly out of their depth. Rather than admit the folly of centralizing everyone’s personal health care data in a single online repository, they pressed forward, outsourcing website construction and security to companies like CGI, Optum/QSSI and other contractors. This made everyone at the office feel important, imposing unrealistic and shifting goals.
Obamacare was going “live,” ready or not. It wasn’t ready, and it still isn’t.
Andy Slavitt, then an executive of QSSI, scoffed at the idea last year that there was a threat to the security of Obamacare information, and defended his company’s protection of users’ information in testimony to Congress. Now Mr. Slavitt is back, this time as an official of the Health and Human Services Department, struggling to answer questions about the security breaches he previously scoffed at.Read the rest of the story HERE;.
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