Federal Govt Citizen Database Created Under Obamacare
The Obamacare health insurance exchanges that are supposed to save families money are actually a major threat to your privacy. In fact, USA Today columnists Stephen T. Parente and Paul Howard called Obamacare a privacy nightmare.
They
noted that Obamacare involves the creation of a massive consolidated
database of information about everybody who participates in the health
insurance exchanges. The exchanges are supposed to make it easier for
average people to get health insurance by creating an online market
place for policies. A large percentage of the cost of insurance will be
covered by a federal tax credit.Federal Government Will Have Access to Your Data
The exchanges will be run by individual states, but Parente and Howard argue that their creation will involve the creation of a central data hub run by the federal government. They noted that the IRS, the Treasury Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will all have access to this database and the information in it.Related: 5 Proven Reasons to Stop Trusting the Government Right Now
That means the IRS or FBI could track you down through the database if you bought a health insurance policy through an exchange. CNN reported that the Department of Homeland Security will be verifying citizenship of applicants for health insurance through the exchanges. Does this mean that ICE will be able to track down and arrest or deport illegal immigrants through the exchanges?
The IRS will be examining the data to verify income. That means to use the exchange, you’ll have to let the IRS examine all your financial records and effectively audit you. And meanwhile, the Pentagon is launching software that tracks and transcribes thousands of phone calls at once in order to further extract information from your personal life.
The frightening thing is that the data hub for this program is already in existence. CNN also reported that the hub is being constructed by Quality Software Services Inc. (a subsidiary of United Healthcare). The data hub should be up and running by October when the health insurance exchanges go online.
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