Congressman to Constituents: Proceed on Healthcare.gov At Your Own Risk

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | December 3, 2013 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Rep. Mo Brooks (R., Ala.) is warning his constituents to not go on healthcare.gov, the Obamacare website, unless they’re “willing to accept the risk that their identities will be stolen.”

The online health care exchange has been beset with glitches since its launch, with one particularly alarming issue being users having their personal information compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday that the marketplace is even more vulnerable to security breaches since the administration “fixed” Healthcare.gov, according to a cyber security expert.

Brooks, therefore, bluntly said he would not recommend anyone from his district, Alabama’s 5th, go on the site. He made the remarks in an interview on The Laura Ingraham Show Tuesday.

RAYMOND ARROYO: Would you recommend to your constituents signing up then for Obamacare given the security lapses and vulnerabilities?

MO BROOKS: Absolutely not. They in no way, shape, or form should get on the healthcare.gov website unless they are willing to accept the risk that their identities will be stolen or that they will be subject to some kind of deception or fraud.

[2ndDivisionVet]

As should all politicians.

[Yosemitest]

Quit playing Obama's game.
IMPEACH the KENYAN TURD !

Only idiots and the evil voted for Obama, or ANY of the Democrats.
They've lied to us, constantly, and really are "Collapsing the System".
And now, these "Useful IDIOTS" who voted for them, are buying the lies that "Obamacare was designed to work." ?
It was designed to fail from the start.
THEN ... THEY GO TO THE "SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM".

Flashback: Obama's Campaign to Transition to Single Payer Health Care (VIDEO)


obama master plan on health careover the years in his own words--SINGLE PAYER!!! ( 3:38 )

They've been sucking our wallets dry for over four years now on the "Obamacare" LIE.
AND NOW THEY WANT MORE TAXES ?
Our Founding Fathers would have hung them already!

Lets review:

Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?

...the president and the Democratic Party successfully bamboozle voters... The 2012 election could turn on this falsehood.
The truth is that the Obama health law reduces future funding for Medicare by $575 billion over the next 10 years ...

Mr. Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius frequently make that false claim.
Indeed, even Medicare's mailings to seniors repeat the claim that reducing spending on Medicare will make it more financially secure for future years.
The fact is that Mr. Obama's law raids Medicare.

Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s?
"In early 1968 President Lyndon Johnson [DEMOCRAT] made a change in the budget presentation by including Social Security and all other trust funds in a"unified budget." "

Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?

The History of Medicare

In 1965, the Social Security Act established both Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare was a responsibility of the Social Security Administration (SSA), while Federal assistance to the State Medicaid programs was administered by the Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS). SSA and SRS were agencies in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration was created under HEW to effectively coordinate Medicare and Medicaid. In 1980 HEW was divided into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The first U.S. President to propose a prepaid health insurance plan was Harry S. Truman [DEMOCRAT]. On November 19, 1945, in a special message to Congress, President Truman outlined a comprehensive, prepaid medical insurance plan for all people through the Social Security system. The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues.

Over the years, lawmakers narrowed the field of health insurance recipients largely to social security beneficiaries. A national survey found that only 56 percent of those 65 years of age or older had health insurance. President John F. Kennedy [DEMOCRAT] pressed legislators for health insurance for the aged. However, it wasn't until 1965 that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed H.R. 6675 (The Social Security Act of 1965; PL 89-97) to provide health insurance for the elderly and the poor.

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Bill (Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act) in Independence, Missouri in the presence of former President Truman, who received the first Medicare card at the ceremony; Lady Bird Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, and Mrs. Truman also were present. President Johnson remarked: "We marvel not simply at the passage of this Bill but that it took so many years to pass it."

Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor.

The 1972 Social Security Amendments expanded Medicare to provide coverage to two additional high risk groups disabled persons receiving cash benefits for 24 months under the social security program and persons suffering from end-stage renal disease.

...(continued at link)

So Democrats,

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR INSURING THE FAILURE
OF THE MEDICARE/MEDICAID PROGRAM,
and now YOU DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A. ECONOMY!!!

So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!!

You have no integrity!!!

Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ...

"There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday; instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "

It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Security Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...

Not ALL are to blame for the empty lock box.

It's the Democrats Communists.

Let's take a deeper look.

Obama: "I Don't Want the Folks who Created the Mess to do a lot of Talking" "

Okay, then the DEMOCRATS need to shut up!!!

[pepsionice]

The reality of this? Imagine a couple of Microsoft engineers coming forward as a new release is about to occur, and telling the public not to buy into the release because it won’t work as promised. The product, for better or worse, is a failed product from that point on.

I am reminded of a German mechanic I used once for my Dodge Dakota. While working on problem one, he created problem two. While working on problem two, he created problem three. He eventually gets back around to fixing problem two, and after a while...both one and three were fixed to a minor degree (the timing was never the same after this). I see the same behavior and careless nature with this group. They never understood what they were doing in the first place.

[ransomnote]

About 2 weeks ago, I read that Pelosi and her Repub peer on a security committee both recommended that the website be taken down until secured.
Then I read that a white hat hacker “proved” the website was not secured.
Then I read a security agency said that security had never been built into the system and applying it after the fact would be laborious.
Then I read that the website is linked to a data hub (organizations like IRS and Social Security - these have everyone’s data pre loaded) and that navigators have access to the data hub.
Then I read that there was an expose video tape of a Navigator offering to bundle and sell applicant data on the black market.
How much more insecure could it possibly get. Yes - it no doubt is quite a feeding trough for hackers even as we speak. My question is “did they get access to the hub” and what percentage of the Navigators are selling our data?

[Deagle]

Unfortunately, he is providing truth to the Media... Good thing that someone is, unfortunately it will only be taken as another knock on Obamacare by the Media. That’s okay because in the long run, the Media will be eating their words! Truth always outs in the long run...

[FreedomStar3028]

If you even go to that stinking website, don’t enter any information.

Imagine the cries when dem voters a year after applying for their great new healthcare have their identities stolen and healthcare.gov is the culprit. Haha.

[gleeaikin]

My boyfriend feels I am silly not to do banking and bill paying on line. I don’t mind writing checks and figure I am safer that way. Who is correct?

[ReaganGeneration2]

If the GOP Congress was serious about opposing Obamacare, they would prove it was illegally released as fulfulling FISMA criteria. It does not fulfill them, and to try to say it does is a fraud. Healthcare.gov is illegal.

[RginTN]

CGI federal will be in the crosshairs of lawyers who represent people who’s info was stolen after signing on to obamacare.

[steerpike100]

Seems to me that if more congress critters told their constituents to beware of the website, the Dem’s would be forced to come clean on the security risks. They’re keeping mum now. To acknowledge any security risk is to doom the mandate roll-out.

[no-to-illegals]

Safety First, thus am in agreement.

[no-to-illegals]

The zer0care website is a hackers dream come true. Those signing up and putting all of their information there to be stolen. There is no doubt this flaw, glitch, or whatever they want to call it was designed purposefully for the purpose of granting hackers complete access. Did everyone see the screen shot (captured by a Freeper .. can't recall nick at this time) of the chinese writing on the website? The hacking on the zer0care website has gone worldwide.

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks OKC Patriot ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3097337/posts ... Screen capture is at post #6 of chinese writing on obamacare’s website.

[Lazamataz]

Banking and bill paying is secure. HTTPS is still secure. However, they are planning to upgrade internet security at the transport level because HTTPS will not be secure soon enough. The banking websites are well-built and durable.

[no-to-illegals]

Guess I’m just old and old fashioned. Have never trusted a website to be secure. Too many rooms full of hackers (worldwide).

[b4its2late]

You have more risk from getting scammed out of your funds than you do someone getting your banking or bill paying information. But writing checks is okay too. I do both.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Then I read that the website is linked to a data hub (organizations like IRS and Social Security - these have everyone’s data pre loaded) and that navigators have access to the data hub. Then I read that there was an expose video tape of a Navigator offering to bundle and sell applicant data on the black market.”

THAT is terrifying. Basically, we’re all sitting here waiting for the other shoe to drop, and checking the balance in our banking and credit card accounts daily to see if our identifies have been stolen. It’s not a matter of “if”; it’s “when”.

[Texas resident]

I really think the lack of security was intentional in order for identity thieves to have a field day.
More chaos and disruption. It follows a pattern.
Big gov creates a crisis then comes back around with a solution to the crisis.
Remember “never let a crisis go to waste”?

I have always believed that the Obama gang is setting the table for either an economic trainwreck or a terrorist attack or both in order to take advantage of the situation.

Well, they just gave Iran the green light to proceed with their nuke weapons program and here we are in the middle of a multifaceted assault on the American economy from DC.

It is still just mind boggling that Americans are doing this to America.

[no-to-illegals]

It is still just mind boggling that Americans are doing this to America.

I agree. Are we certain they are all Americans though in the zer0 administration?

[P.O.E.]

I call it the Nero complex.

Burn it down, move in and rebuild to their own liking and advantage.