this week. It's a very good system both for caseworkers and clients who access the system from home. I was impressed by it's simplicity and efficiency. It's too bad the firm that designed it did not also design Healthcare.gov.

Mark my words.

It will already be in a government database, so what possible reason would the NSA have for storing a duplicate of it?

next pope?

Seriously, NSA needs a reason?

Any governmental body after reaching a certain size, continued exsistence becomes it's goal. If that means monitoring more and more to increase it's budget, so be it.

And that being the case, why can't people just submit their names and then healthcare.gov can get the info from the NSA. The NSA seems to be way better at this than those laggards at HHS.

any less true.

The unfortunate thing is Rwers argue both sides of the coin.

Not a huge concern.

screaming point by the repukes. That is where the problem lies.

is already bored (to their shame) with the NSA story.

has to pick and choose which memes to amplify.

get reined in. Sort of doubt it, but hey one can hope.

What data will go to the NSA? Have you actually filled out an application? It's basic - more basic than an application someone fills out to buy a car.

It asks for your Social, income data and household. That's it. Things the government pretty much already has. Why would the NSA want that? And what would they do with it? More importantly - what makes you think they don't already have your income and Social?

It doesnt matter what it is, it's simply data to be accessed and captured.

So, I'll just take that to mean you don't know what you are talking about.

It's obvious you're struggling defending your position. That or you're suggesting that the NSA is so unorganized that they're now data mining websites that have information they've already should have on file being it's all GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ANYWAY. If that's the case, all this concern over the NSA is pretty laughably ridiculous. I mean, what the hell is the point of fearing an organization that is so inept it collects data it already should have?

I don't mind humoring you

I don't mind watching you spin in the wind as you try to rationalize something that can't be rationalized. It's quite cute.

I'm having fun!

Still doesnt change anything though. If you bothered to read my posts you realize this isnt about rationality. However just seeing your responses shows as much.

of the conversation seems to be beaming in from the twilight zone. It's kind of funny, though.

If it's on the internet backbone, it's in the NSA bottomless pit of storage. Maybe they will purge it, maybe they won't.

The information the application asks of consumers is already known by the government - or what it will know when you file your taxes next year. There is nothing on that application that the big, bad, scary NSA hasn't already had access to over the years (from the Social Security Department or IRS or whatever).

So, if the NSA really is just going to compulsively collect data it already has, I'm not even going to worry about it. Why? Because it shws just how incompetent the organization is - when it's using its resources to collect all this data that is already entered into a computer somewhere else.

You will look more and more obvious every day as the news continues to improve re: Obamacare.

The problems are being addressed and corrected. There will continue to be problems regardless as more people use it and plans are added and dropped from the system. Guess what? ACA is the law. It will not go away. As a cancer survivor, I'm happy that companies are being required to provide coverage for people like me. Instead of whining, why not get behind improving ACA? People need access to healthcare at a reasonable cost. Anything less is immoral.

really.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

for confirmation of my enrollment. I enrolled thru CoveredCA early Nov. and haven't heard a peep. Can't get thru on the phone either. We shall see!

As soon as the SCOTUS "cleared" it, there should have been a pre-clearance site set up to just register.. They could have chosen the plan they liked and printed out a paper form, then filled it out with all their pertinent info, and then SENT it to the insurance company, along with a customer number.,

The subsidy amount due them is an issue between the insurance co & the government anyway, so let those two work it out.

Less well-off folks could have registered through medicaid (if their state participated).

Insurance companies (the BIGGEST beneficiary) should have been more than happy to process the applications.

Payment options could have been made through paypal/google-pay for the ones who wanted to go that route.

the main problem I foresee is that the companies will be getting their subsidy money directly from Uncle Sam, and what if the customer does not make their share of the premium...or pays it late?