Posted on 11/26/2013 11:10:00 AM PST by thouworm
Full Title: RIGGING THE FUTURE: Obamacare Creates 50 New State Databases With No Function Beyond Gathering Potential Voter Information, Real or Fraudulent
Since the passage of Obamacare, all fifty state Medicaid agencies have been forced to create a new standalone database that contains nothing besides the contact information of Medicaid applicants who used Healthcare.gov.
Some of these new databases mail out voter registration forms automatically. You cannot refuse them.
No worthwhile verification occurs before the forms are mailed. Apply for Medicaid and the form will be mailed to you, be you a verifiable citizen or Ayman al-Zawahiri on a computer in Pakistan.
Further, these new databases are accessible by groups like Organizing for Action, the reconstituted ACORN, and malevolent figures like Chris Tarango.
And no reasonable purpose exists for creating the databases besides making them available to the aforementioned Democratic activists.
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Heard nothing regarding this before? Not only are you not alone, several state secretaries of State we contacted had no clue any of this was occurring under their watch. One source involved in the recently initiated legal battle to expose and dismantle the databases described the situation as follows:
Evil genius.
A complete disregard for certain Federal law, the skirting of others, the exploitation of existing Medicaid structures, the issuing of rules and regulations with virtually none of the required paper trail …
Just evil genius. They friggin’ thought of everything.
The remainder of this article is composed of descriptions of the several decisions made by Obamacare authors that led to the construction of the databases. The listing of these decisions is intended to illustrate the impossibility that these databases were created unintentionally, or due to incompetence — a “fumble.”
We hope to show that a rational, disinterested observer must arrive at the conclusion that these actions could not have been taken for any reason beyond the intended exploitation of the Affordable Care Act as a vehicle for future Democratic election victories.
We invite readers to offer alternative interpretations. We have reached out to several Democratic Congressional offices to give them the opportunity to offer their own.
We also have reached out to GOP officials to see if any are willing to go on record stating the lone reasonable conclusion: objectively, some authors of the ACA were not “bleeding hearts,” but white-collar criminals.
Applicants to Healthcare.gov must enter their current income level. This is a pivotal piece of data for the system: income alone is used to determine if the applicant will be presented with the option to: a) purchase full-price or subsidized health insurance policies; or b) if the applicant will be directed towards Medicaid/CHIP programs. This determination is calculated according to the new Modified/Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) scale.
However, Healthcare.gov does not perform any checks at all (such as requiring the submission of pay stubs, the prior year’s tax return, etc.) to verify the income amount entered by the applicant. This all-important piece of data is accepted by Healthcare.gov on the “honor system.”
If an applicant’s entered income is low enough to be eligible for subsidy, the applicant will soon be asked by Healthcare.gov if he or she does not wish to receive a voter registration form. This question alone utilizes aggressive application of three provisions of Federal law.
The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, or “Motor Voter”, requires allmunicipal and government facilities which provide public assistance to also offer voter registration services. The Obama administration claims that “Motor Voter” thus applies to Healthcare.gov, and subsequently Healthcare.gov must provide voter registration services. Some states have disagreed with this application as it relates to state exchanges, but expect those states to face DOJ litigation – Rhode Island and other states have.
1. Since the adoption of Motor Voter in 1993, the Federal Government has successfully forced states to push voter registration in all on-line contexts.
This represents a significant distinction: the federal government has necessarily crafted entirely new fields of law to handle the development of electronic interactions.
2. Motor Voter specifies that facilities offering public assistance must have voter registration services available, and the Federal Government is forcing applications to specifically reject voter registration, sometimes multiple times.
As such, you can draw your own conclusions about the motivation behind applying Motor Voter to the ACA, and behind phrasing the question in that manner.
3. A stunning apparent violation of federal law: In practice, Healthcare.gov does not let you say “no” to a voter registration form.
Even if you say “no”, you may be mailed a form automatically.
You may receive a form that is pre-populated with the identifying information you entered into Healthcare.gov. Comprehension of the form is thus unnecessary; the recipient of the pre-populated form need only determine where to sign it.
As explained below, this will occur at the state level, where the design and implementation of Obamacare regarding voter registration makes these transparently intentional abuses of Motor Voter seem tame.
Among sources reached for this article, that phrase “evil genius” was employed when referring to what Obamacare requires of state Medicaid entities; we were told it’s usage has become commonplace.
Since the enactment of LBJ’s Great Society public assistance programs, most state Medicaid agencies have not been responsible for handling eligibility screenings.
Generally, screening for the various public assistance programs has instead been handled by state Departments of Health and Human Services, or by similar state entities. One system would screen for all of the public assistance programs; the individual state program agencies would only handle administration.
After 50 years of precedence, Obamacare has changed this. But only for Medicaid.
As discussed earlier, if an applicant enters a qualifyingly low income into Healthcare.gov, the applicant is sent to the Medicaid side of the website. At this point, those five decades of established fraud prevention procedures are jettisoned.
Identifying information entered on the Medicaid side of Healthcare.gov is treated differently than identifying information entered while applying to all other public assistance programs.
How it works now: each state Medicaid agency has been instructed to create a new stand-alone database for storing identifying information entered by Medicaid applicants via Healthcare.gov. (Note the word “instructed,” not “required by law” or something similar. We will get to that shortly.) As instructed, all fifty states have created one of these databases.
They have further been instructed that this identifying information should no longer be sent to whichever state organization formerly performed the eligibility screening. The information must only go to these new databases.
As instructed, each state designed these new stand-alone databases to be dedicated to storing only the identifying information of Healthcare.gov applicants — but no medical data.
If you happen to be familiar with the basics of both health care and election law, perhaps your pupils just grew wide. Because you are aware that medical records are treated by the law as private and sacrosanct, but voter rolls, consisting of only identifying information, are publicly accessible.
To summarize:
These four bullet points are the basis of Decision #5.
States were instructed that, to comply with Motor Voter, these new databases must automatically mail voter registration forms to each new individual applicant sent over from Healthcare.gov.
Recall, you may have said “no” earlier. It doesn’t matter.
The new databases must also mail a second form that states “I do not wish to register to vote,” which you must sign and return.
Otherwise, it is assumed you wish to register.
If the Feds notice you still haven’t replied?
Remember Decision #4: the new databases are publicly accessible, since they do not contain any medical information.
Anyone – perhaps Organizing For America, or Battleground Texas – can get their hands on it, and then show up at your door with yet another form.
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Review the prior five decisions: are you able to determine a reasonable explanation for all five of them besides getting potential voter information in the hands of Democratic organizing groups? Groups populated by bad actors like Chris Tarango, but which nonetheless have the blessings of the administration?
Recall that this is voter information gathered via Medicaid applications, a program whose recipients vote almost exclusively Democrat.
If Orwell comparisons strike you as tedious, an additional instruction to the states about how they are allowed to screen eligibility, along with the precedent-breaking, whispered demands from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that follow may have you granting an exception.
For the past five decades, states have dedicated a tremendous amount of resources to providing a “second-level review” of applicant information transmitted to them via a federal agency.
But now, and quite simply, that has been ended. But only for Medicaid.
States are no longer allowed to challenge the validity of applicant information sent to them from the Medicaid side of Healthcare.gov.
Instead, states are to assume that if information was transmitted to them, the Federal government has deemed that information to be valid. States haven’t simply been instructed to no longer let their traditional public assistance eligibility screeners touch Medicaid information from Healthcare.gov — they have been instructed that state Medicaid agencies can’t screen it, either. This isn’t an administrative shift of the state screening processes, it’s the forbidding of state screening processes.
We already know what little concern Healthcare.gov itself has for the validity of applicant information. The site employs the “honor system” for income, the most important piece of data. Also, as previously reported at PJ Media, the Medicaid side of Healthcare.gov allows anyone on Earth to secure at least 90 days of Medicaid with just two easily forged documents and a lie about being a legal alien.
The security bar is even lower for entrance into one of the new state “Medicaid/voter roll” databases. In fact, it’s non-existent: apply for Medicaid as a citizen, you’re going to end up in your state’s new “Medicaid/voter roll” database.
And the state is forbidden from checking the application’s validity.
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This development represents an endpoint, with identifiable products of those six Federal decisions. The products are:
What is the rational result of these two final products following their implementation?
To employ an example from our prior article on fraudulent 90-day Medicaid enrollments:
If Healthcare.gov was actually working, al-Qaeda could get that done by the weekend.
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How did the Obama administration accomplish this? Where’s the paper trail? Aren’t there established processes for the development and implementation of rules and regulations applying to a Federal bill, and aren’t all of those deliberations required to be publicly released?
Yes. But in perhaps the Obama administration’s worst “fumble,” they bypassed just about the entire rule-issuance process.
In Part Two of this article, to be published following the Thanksgiving holiday, we will discuss how the Federal government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, acted in a precedence-shattering, secretive manner in issuing orders to state Medicaid agencies regarding how to construct the databases.
We will also discuss the massive security holes created by the allowance of “telephonic signature,” and the secretaries of State who were left completely in the dark.
We will link, post, and discuss the paper trail — and who was involved.
And we will discuss the George Soros-funded Demos organization, which helped push the “opt-out” approach to Motor Voter, and which happened to be one of the few entities that had any knowledge of the new databases.
Indeed, they happened to have enough knowledge regarding the databases to prepare and publish a report containing state-by-state strategies for taking advantage of them.
The whole Obamascam was just to gather info, nothing else, for the DNC..................
This is why they keep saying “let’s let the voters decide in 2014.” This is their secret weapon that ensures their re-election.
BHO/Dems always kills several birds with one stone, but healthcare was never the objective.
ObamaCare is an immoral means to an immoral end.
It was always intended as a coercive and fearful means to Dem power and control: The socialist/fascist dystopia...including death panels... from which the oligarchy is exempt.
Yep! Thanks for that reminder!
....and now it has blown up in their face, as we knew it would. The American people, those with the power of reason and logic still in place and functional, are rebelling and will take out their righteous anger at the polls......2014?............160 Million insurance plans, covering perhaps 250 million people will be cancelled as of 2015. If the people remain as agitated as they are now, the election of 2016 will be a bloodbath for the DEMS............those that are left from the Battle of November 2014................
All those aliases and fake entries used to check it out will be future Obama voters for his third and fourth terms?
//jk
Obama has been violating the law all over the place, using Fed $ to recruit and train voters and operatives. Where the hell is the GOP??? They should be launching televised investigations and demanding a special prosecutor!
Which is why Øbongoscam must be dismantled, no matter what the cost. At this point even if we have to crash what’s left of the healthcare industrial complex.
Raze it to the ground and start from scratch - and lock the dhimmicrats out of the process like they did us.
Could this be more ghastly?
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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I know Nigeria contributes a lot of scamsters thru out the internet,, but so does Kenya, via Indonesia and then Hawaii.. And Illinois.
those nasty Tea Partiers…. ;)
pfl
Yes, but that’s only one piece of the puzzle.
Remember how, back in 2008, 2010 and 2012, Obama sent his campaign workers out unto the field, under the auspices of canvassing, with GPS locaters used to pinpoint as many dwellings as possible, then gather as much data as possible on the occupants?
The Obama folks, usually people living in the neighborhoods they were canvassing, were relentless. I politely declined to provide ANY information at least six times. At the end the neighbor got really agitated with me ... and probably plugged in information on me gathered elsewhere ...
Looking at these things as “databases” really understates what’s going on. In reality they’re probably building a massive data warehouse that contains information culled from all sorts of different sources, not just these 50 state databases. The datamining capability, the ability to cross reference virtually every aspect of an individuals life, is going to be awe inspiring (in an evil genius way, per the article)
Maxine is one whack uhhhh clairvoyant or psychic, and damn lucky and connected too.. I rue standing in her shoes come uh huh JD.
She’s right up there with Jackson Lee, Boxer and Wasserman
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