Both Bacus (Sr. Democrat) and Hatch (Sr. Republican) hit this HARD today at the hearings — as have others in other hearings and in the press.
Sebelius has been asked REPEATEDLY if she will shut the site down until it is secure and actually, well, even works. She always says NO!. This is an abominable and unforgivable breach of security of American free citizens. It cannot be tolerated. Surely an injunction could be placed to stop this travesty.
Sebelius let this cat out of the bag at today’s hearings. It is actually BETTER she says, to keep the live system up, because it helps them to identify other bugs, errors, unintended consequences, and flaws. This is TESTING, my dear citizens; TESTING which should be done with a dummy data base. She is leaving it UP and LIVE with YOUR PERSONAL DATA as an EXPEDIENT for TESTING! SHEESH! Does no one have the intestinal fortitude to go to a judge and shut it down? Does the House and Senate lack the intestinal fortitude in their oversight capacity to have it shut down??
Why are our elected Senators begging (as the most senior Hatch, Bacus, and others etc.) I mean just begging her to shut it down? Those august bodies HAVE to have the ability to make it so.
There are estimates that U. S. healthcare-related on-line traffic exceeds ONE TRILLION transactions daily. Something are innocuous requests like prescription renewals, but some are life-and-death decisions, like ordering a rare blood-type for a transfusion, or obtaining an organ for an emergency transplant.
The healthcare networks are incredibly complex and diverse, and rely on multiple paths between physician, patient and third parties.
The Obamacare website should be a walk in the park compared to the complicated web of information services needed to sustain a nationally-run healthcare system. If there are screwups now, people might get mad, but people probably won’t die.
In the execution phase of Obamacare, however, mistakes like those made with the website will result in innumerable negative medical consequences, including many deaths. Even minor delays and glitches will exact a huge bodycount.
This website is the canary in the coal mine. We cannot let this program proceed. We cannot accept this kind of incompetance when peoples’ lives are at stake.
Could be the motto for the whole Obama administration. But don't worry. Your most intimate and private details are safe with us.
Obviously we have reached the stage in the oppressive take over where the useful idiots are no longer useful. They have now been targeted for financial cyber attacks. Whether this was by design or not, is immaterial to the fact that oppression has always failed, and the useful idiots should have known that.
An apology from every single one of these Jackasses won’t help a person who has their identity stolen & used in bad ways.
That is a nightmare that lingers for years.