A M$M interviewer actually asks a GOP Obamacare critic to back up their attack on the ACA!!!!!!!

[Bill USA]

[font size="3"]CNN Anchor Challenges GOP Critic of ACA To Substantiate Obamacare Criticism, Hilarity Ensues (when critic can't provide specific explanation of /(basis for) criticism)[/font]


http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/25/2836231/cnn-anchor-challenges-congresswoman-substantiate-obamacare-criticism-hilarity-ensues/

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.

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.”

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:

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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?

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[font size="3"] I think I've heard Repugnants say about a hundred times on tv that they intend to kill or defund Obamacare because "the people don't want Obamacare" Not once have I heard one of the M$M GOP toadies ever ask:

"So, what is it the people don't want: the end of pre-existing conditions as a reason for denial of coverage?, or is it they don't like being able to keep their college age children on their group coverage?, or do they not like the removal of 'lifetime limits on treatment of various medical conditions'... are these the things people want you to kill??"


OF course, then they wouldn't be servicing their GOP overlords, would they. Hurray for the M$M and all that disinformation the GOP wants to chant to the listeners.

... and hurrahs to CNN's Carol Costello for actually being a real tv journalist and asking the appropriate questions ... hell, for asking any questions of GOP attack dogs. All were asking is ask the obvious questions!!
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[gopiscrap]

1. finally, nail these fucking shit heads

[BlueStreak]

2. It asks gender, age, and smoking status. That's it.

I don't think any of those are covered by HIPPA. Maybe the smoking one.

The the congress lady object when people were forced to answer 20 pages of very detailed personal questions every time they applied for health insurance in the past?

[Mika]

3. I cannot stand Carol Costello's "style". Why interrupt an asshat? Let them hang themselves...

... w/their own words.

[daybranch]

5. assuming

the ignorant do not need clarification. We need to inform the ignorant people and quit just singing to the choir.

[russspeakeasy]

4. Thanks for posting this.