Thursday, October 31, 2013

The 'healthcare mash' that is the Obamacare website

Sticking to the topic at hand, and in the holiday spirit, Remy presents the 'Healthcare Mash'...



Related link: RUSH: A Strange Halloween At The Obama White House – SPOOF

The following list of links should suffice plenty in expanding on this mash:
And they've even managed to violate their own privacy policy, putting your identity at risk...
IsThereAProblemHere: The system sends some personal information to 3rd party analytics and advertising companies. For example, the following two images show my username and password reset codes being sent to a couple of 3rd parties:



Not only does this violate Healthcare.gov's stated privacy policy, it likely also violates the privacy policies of these 3rd parties. Even if the 3rd parties receiving the data can be trusted to not abuse the data, they may not protect it as personally identifiable information should be protected -- especially if they are not expecting to receive personal information.
Those state exchange websites aren't going so well either...
theRightScoop: Oh my. It looks like it’s not going as well in some of the state exchanges as the administration would have us believe. At least 15 state exchanges are costing taxpayers $1.1 billion to fix their websites and states like Oregon haven’t even registered a single person into Obamacare, despite what the president touting Oregon as a huge success.