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Does this connect to Facebook’s plan-— sending a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data? Does Facebook have other secret plans to use data?

Exclusive: Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database
by James S. Robbins | FR Posted by: jamesrobbins1

Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice.

As the Obamacare train-wreck begins to gather steam, there is increasing concern in Congress over something called the Federal Data Services Hub. The Data Hub is a comprehensive database of personal information being established by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the federally facilitated health insurance exchanges.

The purpose of the Data Hub, according to a June 2013 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, is to provide “electronic, near real-time access to federal data” and “access to state and third party data sources needed to verify consumer-eligibility information.” In these days of secret domestic surveillance by the intelligence community, rogue IRS officials and state tax agencies using private information for political purposes, and police electronically logging every license plate that passes by, the idea of the centralized Data Hub is making lawmakers and citizens nervous.

They certainly should be; the potential for abuse is enormous. The massive, centralized database will include comprehensive personal information such as income and financial data, family size, citizenship and immigration status, incarceration status, social security numbers, and private health information.

It will compile dossiers based on information obtained from the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, the Social Security Administration, state Medicaid databases, and for some reason the Peace Corps. The Data Hub will provide web-based, one-stop shopping for prying into people’s personal affairs.

Not to fear, HHS says, the Data Hub will be completely secure. Really? Secure like all the information that has been made public in the Wikileaks era? These days no government agency can realistically claim that private information will be kept private, especially when it is being made so accessible. Putting everyone’s personal information in once place only simplifies the challenge for those looking to hack into the system.

However, the hacker threat is the least of the Data Hub worries. The hub will be used on a daily basis by so-called Navigators, which according to the GAO are “community and consumer-focused nonprofit groups, to which exchanges award grants to provide fair and impartial public education” and “refer consumers as appropriate for further assistance.” Thousands of such people will have unfettered access to the Data Hub, but there are only sketchy guidelines on how they will be hired, trained and monitored. Given the slap-dash, incoherent way Obamacare is being implemented the prospect for quality control is low. And the Obama administration’s track record of sweetheart deals, no-bid, sole-source contracting and other means of rewarding people with insider access means the Data Hub will be firmly in the hands of trusted White House loyalists.

So if you think the IRS targeting Tea Party groups was bad, just wait for the Obamacare Navigators to be unleashed. “Trust us,” the administration says, no one will abuse the Data Hub. Sure, because that has worked out so well in the past.

See more at: http://rare.us/story/move-over-nsa-here-comes-the-obamacare-big-brother-database/#sthash.aDvFlj7r.dpuf

We learned belatedly that Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patients’ confidential health data.

The story for public consumption is Facebook asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients (illnesses and prescription info), for a “proposed research project.” Facebook “said” it intended to match it up with user data it had collected, so it could “help” the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.

This is so much BS......language designed to paper over another one of many of Facebook’s nefarious activities.

As we have learned to our dismay, the public Facebook-—all sweetness and light—— “says” one thing for public consumption, but behind the scenes is a different story.

REALITY CHECK-—Facebook was possibly colluding with Obama to mine data for the O/Care atrocity, perhaps to provide intel to O/Care’s Death Panels.

Obamacare ACA mandated that all doctors electronically input data for all patient visits, coded for payment from the USG, Insurance companies, or the individual.

All this data allows the Gov or Insurance companies to know your personal risk information before selling you commercial products. If you have MS you might be charged more only because you use more treatments codes... not because you a disease which is convoluted with other forms of profiling and now illegal as a form of discrimination. Once you visit a doctor, life insurance - car insurance - medical insurance - security clearances, etc., can all be determined on actuary scales for Risk what ever the category that needs to be determined. In a sane world the "codes" for information would only be inputed and not accessed by the data entry clerk with proper permissions, and up the ladder with fine tuned access privileges.

All socialists seek to abuse their constituents in order that they rise above the equity-level.