Who sees your private info from Healthcare.gov...

[OriginalShroom]

Here is their so-called privacy statement....

https://www.healthcare.gov/individual-privacy-act-statement/

Privacy Act Statement – effective 10/1/2013
We are authorized to collect the information on this form and any supporting documentation, including social security numbers, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law No. 111-148), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111-152), and the Social Security Act.

We need the information provided about you and the other individuals listed on this form to determine eligibility for: (1) enrollment in a qualified health plan through the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace, (2) insurance affordability programs (such as Medicaid, CHIP, advanced payment of the premium tax credits, and cost sharing reductions), and (3) certifications of exemption from the individual responsibility requirement. As part of that process, we will verify the information provided on the form, communicate with you or your authorized representative, and eventually provide the information to the health plan you select so that they can enroll any eligible individuals in a qualified health plan or insurance affordability program. We will also use the information provided as part of the ongoing operation of the Marketplace, including activities such as verifying continued eligibility for all programs, processing appeals, reporting on and managing the insurance affordability programs for eligible individuals, performing oversight and quality control activities, combatting fraud, and responding to any concerns about the security or confidentiality of the information.

While providing the requested information (including social security numbers) is voluntary, failing to provide it may delay or prevent your ability to obtain health coverage through the Marketplace, advanced payment of the premium tax credits, cost sharing reductions, or an exemption from the shared responsibility payment. If you don’t have an exemption from the shared responsibility payment and you don’t maintain qualifying health coverage for three months or longer during the year, you may be subject to a penalty. If you don’t provide correct information on this form or knowingly and willfully provide false or fraudulent information, you may be subject to a penalty and other law enforcement action.
In order to verify and process applications, determine eligibility, and operate the Marketplace, we will need to share selected information that we receive outside of CMS, including to:

1.Other federal agencies, (such as the Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security), state agencies (such as Medicaid or CHIP) or local government agencies. We may use the information you provide in computer matching programs with any of these groups to make eligibility determinations, to verify continued eligibility for enrollment in a qualified health plan or Federal benefit programs, or to process appeals of eligibility determinations;
2.Other verification sources including consumer reporting agencies;
3.Employers identified on applications for eligibility determinations;
4.Applicants/enrollees, and authorized representatives of applicants/enrollees;
5.Agents, Brokers, and issuers of Qualified Health Plans, as applicable, who are certified by CMS who assist applicants/enrollees;
6.CMS contractors engaged to perform a function for the Marketplace; and
7.Anyone else as required by law or allowed under the Privacy Act System of Records Notice associated with this collection (CMS Health Insurance Exchanges System (HIX), CMS System No. 09-70-0560, as amended, 78 Federal Register, 8538, March 6, 2013, and 78 Federal Register, 32256, May 29, 2013).

So submitting your private info is "voluntary", if you don't you won't get the insurance and you will be fined and subject to "Other law enforcement action"..

Talk about having a gun pointed at your head while "asking" for your information...

Then look at everyone who gets to see your private information... So much for your health care being between you and your doctor...

 

[HenryBHough]

How are those "navigators" screened for criminal records?

Apparently not at all.

But you can trust them. Until you learn how foolish that was.

 

[Mr. H.]

This is motivation enough to stick with my current insurer and take it up the ass with what few policies they are offering under the ACA.

 

[OKTexas]

I don't really care, never plan to go there.

 

[OriginalShroom]

I don't really care, never plan to go there.

At this point, I don't have to go there... but they really didn't think this privacy thing out and yes.. I have said a lot about the navigators not being screened, but no one on the left seems to care..