Comment: If you’ve ignored or discounted reports about how desperately and how far the Obama administration wants to intrude into your life, then you need to know about the F-E-D-E-R-A-L D-A-T-A H-U-B. Remember that term. It will become a big part of your life. Everything about you, absolutely everything, will be available to many different agencies and non-government contractors without your knowledge or consent. Are you upset yet??? 1984 is just around the corner.
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“The Department of Health and Human Services is about to hire an army of “patient navigators” to inform Americans about the subsidized insurance promised by Obamacare and assist them in enrolling. These organizers will be guided by the new Federal Data Hub, which will give them access to reams of personal information compiled by federal agencies ranging from the IRS to the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration….No wonder that there are concerns about everything from identity theft to the ability of navigators to use the system to register Obamacare participants to vote.”
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“So far everything we’ve learned indicates the navigators will be flying blind… In June, the Government Accountability Office reported that HHS is considering allowing navigators to assist with outreach and enrollment tasks even before completing their formal training…”
‘“This spring, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawyers were also told by HHS that, despite the fact that navigators will have access to sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and tax returns, there will be no criminal background checks required for them. Indeed, they won’t even have to have high-school diplomas….But HHS is unconcerned. It points out that navigators will have to take a 20–30 hour online course about how the 1,200-page law works, which, given its demonstrated complexity, is like giving someone a first-aid course and then making him a med-school professor. …”
‘“The standards proposed by your department could result in a convicted felon receiving federal dollars and gaining access to confidential taxpayer information,” a group of nine Republican senators led by Utah’s Orrin Hatch wrote to Secretary Sebelius last month….”
“…voter registration is among the goals of the folks hawking Obamacare….It seems as if some Obama supporters have found a new way to fill the void left by the bankruptcy of ACORN, the notorious left-wing voter-registration group that saw dozens of its employees in multiple states convicted of fraud.”
“…early reports are that the federal government will be offering navigators between $20 and $48 an hour….”
“…The Obama administration wants something the federal government has never done: a computer system that connects HHS, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, Homeland Security and perhaps other departments,” [said] John Goodman, a health-care expert with the National Center for Policy Analysis…”
“But the consensus is that, if Obamacare isn’t repealed, the government can, with enough effort and money, get the Data Hub up and running….”
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Obamacare’s Branch of the NSA
By John Fund
JULY 22, 2013
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354031/obamacares-branch-nsa-john-fund