Posted on 10/23/2013 3:48:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Signing up for insurance on the new health-care marketplaces can be challenging enough without having to remember your high-school mascot. Or your favorite childhood superhero, the manager at your first job or the street you lived on in third grade.
Those are just some of the security questions being offered to shoppers on the state and federal exchange sites as a way to verify their identities—and they are leaving some would-be customers flummoxed.
"I don't think they took baby boomers into account when they invented those questions," says Margo Benge, a 58-year-old massage therapist in Missouri City, Texas, who gave up trying to use the federal exchange when she was able to answer only two of the 12 questions offered, not the required three. "I barely remember two weeks ago, let alone childhood," she says....
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People are not smart enough to make-up answers?
Nobody is checking the answers for truthfulness!
You don’t have to give them accurate answers on these sorts of questions, you just have to answer the question in the same way twice.
Officials at the government agency that runs the federal exchanges didn't respond to requests for comment.
No, I think they have the NSA, CIA and TSA looking up the correct answers to make sure you’re not lying.
I was going to post the same. Good minds!
My ~$100M credit union lets me create my own security questions..
Make up some absurd and scatological “answers” but record them so you know what you said.
Sounds like none of these whiners has ever used online banking.
“What is the air speed of an unladen swallow?”
The answers to those questions are not a problem...I remember all of the correct answers.
I just can’t remember where I left the TV remote five minutes ago.
The Death Panels will take care of all of that.
If ‘40 million don’t have insurance,’ they probably don’t have PC & internet service. How are they supposed to sign up?
Obamacare Security Questions:
“Does flatulence have odor in an elevator with one passenger?”
“Did the Doctors finger stink after your prostate exam?”
“Do Senior Citizens have trouble with their tooth?”
“Using CAD, dimension the object shown using Solidworks. How many grams did you get for its Mass?”
Meanwhile, it has left Nancy botoxed.
I was just gonna say...I make up random answers and write them down....
Wife’s dream job : stripper
Lord, I hope she never has to get into THAT account !
Well designed security questions should allow user to enter both the question and answer. I hate those stupid canned questions. Favorite pet? Which one out of the dozens of pets? LOL.
Miss March!
The fine print in the website says that one of the many entities that gives/gets your information is the credit bureau Experian. Some of these questions sound like something you might have set up with Experian years ago if you ever got your own credit report via their website.
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