Hacker breached HealthCare.gov insurance site

by Danny Yadron

A hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software, according to federal officials.

Investigators found no evidence that consumers’ personal data was taken in the breach, federal officials said. The hacker appears only to have accessed a server used to test code for HealthCare.gov. The Department of Health and Human Services discovered the attack last week.

An HHS official said the attack appears to mark the first successful intrusion into the website, where millions of Americans bought insurance starting last year under the Affordable Care Act. It raised concerns among federal officials because of how easily the intruder gained access and how much damage could have occurred.

Ah. Nice to know the federal government — the most massive repository of medical records on the planet — can be so readily and illegally accessed. Let’s see, what else is on this website? Oh, that’s right — roughly everything about you, to include your health history, your SSN, your address, predilections, credit history, personal information, ad nauseum.

Perfect. My confidence in the federal government his skyrocketed, as I’m sure your has too.

Just as we knew it would.

But it won’t exempt you, the American Taxpayer.

From my local paper, The Sacramento Bee:

Viewpoints: Brace for much higher health insurance premiums

by Stephen Parente

California, buckle up. Over the next few months, you’ll learn how much your health insurance premiums will go up for next year. The early evidence isn’t good – the percentage increase could be in the double digits.

But that’s nothing compared to what you’ll face in 2017. In May, I released a comprehensive study showing how the Affordable Care Act – otherwise known as Obamacare – will likely play out over the next few years. The diagnosis isn’t good.

First, the short version. In two years, the ACA’s structural problems will lead to substantial premium increases. Once that happens, Californians will likely leave the insurance market in droves. They’ll have little choice; they won’t be able to afford health insurance because federal subsidies won’t keep up with the rapid price increases. Within a decade, this could swell the ranks of the uninsured by nearly 11 percent.

Ladies and gentlemen, this article isn’t coming from a “TEA Party” member but instead from a Bee writer — the newspaper itself being of a Leftist/Demorat bent. That in itself is called a very large clue.

Please read the rest of the post, then read this incredibly important last paragraph, you sniveling sycophants of Barack Hussein’s ObakaKare:

Think of what this means for the Affordable Care Act. Its architects promised that it would make health care cheaper while providing universal health care. Instead, it will make health care unaffordable for many while leaving more Californians uninsured. This health care cure may be worse than the disease.

And this, folks, by an author who is a professor of health finance.

Bloviating Zeppelin

Right thinking from a Left brain.

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Viewpoints: Brace for much higher health insurance premiums