Punchline to an old joke.
Posted on 10/23/2013 3:48:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Signing up for insurance on the new health-care marketplaces can be challenging enough without having to remember your high-school mascot. Or your favorite childhood superhero, the manager at your first job or the street you lived on in third grade.
Those are just some of the security questions being offered to shoppers on the state and federal exchange sites as a way to verify their identities—and they are leaving some would-be customers flummoxed.
"I don't think they took baby boomers into account when they invented those questions," says Margo Benge, a 58-year-old massage therapist in Missouri City, Texas, who gave up trying to use the federal exchange when she was able to answer only two of the 12 questions offered, not the required three. "I barely remember two weeks ago, let alone childhood," she says....
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
What’s your drug of choice?
What country are you from?
But maybe April was good too. Who can remember these things? :-)
I have a question that will stump most of ‘em.
“Who’s your daddy?”
These questions are not like the security questions that you supply answers to for your bank account.
These folks have databases that tie your name back to enrollment in an elementary school years ago.
There may be many people with the same name.
But if you are able to answer a question like your street address in the third grade, they know that you are likely who you claim to be because it’s a low-probability match to an existing data set.
Plus, they get to add some data that ties your new account to that elementary school data entry.
This is far creepier than answering the same security question twice as a credential (matching an answer you previously entered).
They could use their Obama Phones.
1-800- F1U-CKYO
Comforting.
I’ve been in more mobile homes in the backwoods of Mississippi than I’d like to mention. They ALL had the Internet.
If ‘40 million don’t have insurance,’ they probably don’t have PC & internet service.”
They can answer the questions using their iPad silly.
Punchline to an old joke.
LOL...
Easy. Zero. A drawing in a computer does not have mass.
Funny. Thanks for the link.
Thank goodness the government didn’t take over the pizza business, could you imagine how expensive they would be and how limited choices would be if the site worked??
High speed internet as low as $10 a month, guaranteed for 2 years if you have young kids who get free school lunches.... subsidized by... oh you can figure the rest out
What I hate is the transient ones. what’s you favorite movie. I don’t have one and if I did, next week it may be different.
They can’t make anything work. They made a mess of the Mustang Ranch here and if you can’t run a legal whore house that was world famous and had been in business for years, you haven’t a prayer of running health insurance (or a pizza parlor)
some folks are like a box of rocks.....
now that sounds familiar
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