On Friday morning, CNN anchor Carol Costello challenged Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to substantiate her claim that HealthCare.gov will endanger Americans’ medical privacy. The host pushed the Congresswoman to specify which medical details enrollees would have to turn over to the federal government, causing Blackburn to become visibly uncomfortable and unsure as she strung together various buzzwords about privacy.
she leaped and didn't look, once again we are forced to endure the misleading by half cocked republicans, their talking points don't come with backup truths so they are left to try a put together and juggle other past lies to create their fabricated truth.
The exchange originated from a question Blackburn herself leveled at the primary contractors responsible for HealthCare.gov during a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday. Blackburn asked the witnesses why some of their employees had access to “the database servers storing the enrolling information” and suggested that they were in violation of The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the law that guarantees “federal protections for individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information.”
again following an unsupported talking point of misinformation with nothing to back it up, they the party officials send the party of stupidity out to defend an indefensible lie knowing the first time challenged they will give away the absence of any legitimacy, dumb if those they send to defend find out on them they can't depend it just makes the whole thing look stupider.
Asked to explain how requiring enrollees to enter their biographical enrollment information violates a law that only applies to medical data between medical entities, Blackburn demurred:
COSTELLO: So what specifically were you referring to on the website that violates, that could possibly violate HIPAA?BLACKBURN: We are concerned about privacy overall. Data security privacy and of course applying and complying with the HIPAA laws, and…COSTELLO: But what question specifically asks that would concern you about HIPAA, what medical question does it ask?BLACKBURN: Carol, HIPAA requires you to — it’s the way you structure your website and the way you transit the information, the transfer rights that are there, and when you look at privacy on these websites, what you have to do is keep all of the application information in one server [...]COSTELLO: I’m trying to understand what kind of information you’re talking about. What kind of information are you talking about? What specifically does the website ask that I might be afraid might shared with whomever? Specifically. What information?BLACKBURN: You should be very concerned not only as you navigate the website but as you make a purchase, and then as your information is handled, what we want to make certain is that an individual’s medical information their financial information is all going to be kept in a private manner. What we do not want is a peeping Tom who is going to look through their PII, their personal identifying information. they want to make certain the federal government has standards and are applying and abiding by the privacy laws that are on the books and by the HIPAA regulations that every hospital and every doctor abide by. so this is a serious investigation, looking at the entire roll-out and launch of this website, how this data is being used.
this is the face of their fight against you having health care nothing is there they the water carriers don't know why they are in opposition, will they attack her like Wassermann Shultz or the state department lady Victoria Nuland, she did worse then they did and though no lives were lost right then how many if they get to block because of their imaginations?
