Jackson Jambalaya

Check out Maryland’s Obamacare exchange website---those signing up need to read that privacy policy….policy states all personal info will be kept confidential….but then there’s this, in that same privacy policy statement:

“The only exception to this policy is that we may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities.”

appropriate authorities? Audits? Why would personal health information go to the “appropriate authorities”? and what triggers this?

Then there’s this: if you send them an email, involving private matters regarding finances, health history, etc, know ahead of time that those emails could become public records. oops.

No wonder Pelosi said "you'll have to pass the bill to find out what is in it", or some such. So these idiots signing up for obamacaid jump through all the hoops to find out they'll need their credit score. Then they have to cancel the application process, get their credit score and start all over. I say idiots, because that's the way guvmint plays people.

How are those with high deductibles, earning minimum wage, going to meet their share? The obamacaid is enough to get them admitted to medical assistance, then state Medicaid would pay, or the entity provider would eat the difference, and/or increase billing to offset the loss. Same ole Same ole.

I'm not clear how a bad credit score has anything to do with whether to insure someone. Let alone, how many people even know their credit score? What Equifax lobbyist got THAT included in the final bill?

the people signing up for government insurance are those most likely to have credit challenges. but those with bad credit are also the most likely to get federal supplements to pay for the insurance, making them most likely to pay some or most of the premium, so the whole discussion is bizarre.

Ah. Google suggests there is less than meets the eye:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/09/florida-tv-station-tells-viewers-that-credit-score-effects-obamacare-premiums/

But a representative from HealthCare.gov told Raw Story that the credit check during the application process was only used to verify identities and had no bearing on insurance premiums.

“Basically the eligibility requirements for keeping your monthly premiums low is based on your income,” the representative explained.

oh, well if a gov representative said it, then it must be so....

Y'all should be thrilled that the Feds are privatizing the task of ascertaining Joe Blow's income.

If you are doing nothing wrong, then there is nothing to hide. Let it unfold and you will see the benefits.

Keep in mind it was the navigator who provided the quote. Its a good question worth asking and someone should ask the insurance companies directly

11:38
So let's see if I've got this straight. They say the credit check is only to verify identification? Don't you have to provide your Social Security number to get your credit score? Don't you have to provide your SS# during the application process? Sounds like bullshit to me.

I trust there are enough lawyers on this website to answer my question: 'Since when did it become legal for anyone to access my credit score WITHOUT my asking to buy anything or giving them specific permission to check it?' Looking into what costs would be for my fool husband (who voted for -0-) when his employer-provided insurance stops (as it surely will)- I finally navigated partway through the Obamacare process. I was mighty surprised when it displayed specific purchases of mine - including make, model, and date of purchase of my car - and told me to check boxes to 'verify my identity'. I had NOT elected to provide my SS# because website stated that was optional. I had NOT stated I wanted to buy any insurance at that time. What right do they have to access my credit report?

Kingfish, I don't know if you or anyone else on this blog, has ever heard of Michael Connely from Texas. He is a retired constitutional lawyer that now teaches.
Anyway, he has read every word of the ObamaCare bill and he has some very interesting things to say about it. He explains how a chunk of the amendments to the Constitution are done away with by this bill. Everyone should just read it and make your own judgement.
And, by the way, his whole analysis was posted on facebook. Myself, and quite a few of my friends shared it with others day before yesterday, when we all got on facebook yesterday morning, it had disappeared from everyone's timeline??????

well, as far as I am concerned you douche bags with bad credit should be held accountable.

Kingfish, I don't know if you or anyone else on this blog, has ever heard of Michael Connely from Texas. He is a retired constitutional lawyer that now teaches.

Snopes has info on this......

1:39
And you are surprised that Obama and the overlords at the NSA are censoring anything that is at odds to the line of crap they are selling all the low info morons? Gimme mo free stuff from yo stash, Obama.

In case you boys in DC don’t know what to do
DEFUND OBAMACARE.

Republicans get together and hold the line. Do not crumble again

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/connelly.asp

Douche yourself 1:47PM - my credit is perfect. My question about access by an entity to credit reports (though you are obviously not an intelligent enough liberal to answer it) has nothing to do w/score.

One's credit score would affect the plan they should select.
You must have some mechanism to prevent two people signing up under the same SS number and some way to keep people from signing up for plans they can't afford because they are in such debt they can't pay their existing obligations.

all the while forcing them to sign up and pay. cool little extortion scam

Barry said it isn't about what we can afford, it is the healthcare we deserve.

Of course he didn't mention at the time that he was going to f'ck it up royally in order to screw Americans over.

Obama: The Most Incompetent POTUS in the history of the United States

The Kenyan has gone bonafide psycho. Now we learn that the National Park Service has removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise just to ensure people don't get any water from them.

Stay the course Republicans. The toddler in our Spite House has gone from temper tantrum to full meltdown. It is all going to end very badly for Democrats.

October 9, 2013 at 1:11 PM

I enrolled on the site, but have not progressed to the point of getting a quote for insurance. Mi did not provide my SSN. To verify my identity, the website asked me questions like was it true that I lived at 1243 Main Street, Clinton, from 1989 to 1995, etc...

I got bumped from the site when it tried to finalize the confirmation of my identity.

Blue Cross does not check credit scores BUT they are not participating in the Mississippi exchange either.

Maxine Waters has apparently been muzzled since she let it slip that Obama is building a massive, all-inclusive database to leave to the Democrat party for future political use. This may explain many of the suspicious features reported in various states so far.

questions have been asked about credit checks, etc. here are the disclaimers you must agree to in order to create an application from Healthcare.gov, for Mississippi residents:

We’ll keep your information private as required by law. Your answers on this form will only be used to determine eligibility for health coverage or help paying for coverage. We’ll check your answers using the information in our electronic databases and the databases of other federal agencies. If the information doesn’t match, we may ask you to send us proof.

We won’t ask any questions about your medical history. Household members who don’t want coverage won’t be asked questions about citizenship or immigration status.

Important: As part of the application process, we may need to retrieve your information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and/or a consumer reporting agency. We need this information to check your eligibility for coverage and help paying for coverage if you want it and to give you the best service possible. We may also check your information at a later time to make sure your information is up to date. We’ll notify you if we find something has changed.

1:39 om Catch up. The US Supreme Court which is conservative has already ruled on the constitutionality.

I read the Affordable Care Act as well so that , unlike those commenting here , I wouldn't have FOX or CNN or some yahoo in Texas, none of whom clearly haven't read it, tell me what to think!

And, guess what, it didn't take that damn long to read ! And, I didn't have staff or clerks to read it for me nor was it my JOB to know what it says!

hey 8:08, zippity-doo-dah. give yourself a cookie.

10-10-13; 8:08 - Was there anything in the Affordable Care Act about giving businesses and unions a 1 year delay or an exemption from the plan? Was there anything in the plan that gives POTUS unilateral authority to change the Act "at will"? Was there anything in the plan that exempted the POTUS and his family? Was there anything in the plan that provided for the GSA to supplement members of Congress health benefits due to the increased premiums associated with the plan?

This is the most corrupt administration in the history of this country, bar none. Hopefully, the mindless media drones will soon wake up and report the truth.

I read the Affordable Care Act as well so that , unlike those commenting here , I wouldn't have FOX or CNN or some yahoo in Texas, none of whom clearly haven't read it, tell me what to think!

ROFLMAO. But, of course, we should inexplicably listen to an anonymous Obama water carrier.

Surely, somewhere in the Constitution, a Presidential recall vote is provided for.

9:42 Sadly, no. Just impeachment.

8:08 "I wouldn't have FOX or CNN or some yahoo in Texas, none of whom clearly haven't read it, tell me what to think!"

In my grade school we were taught to avoid poor grammar and double (or triple) negatives in sentences, because otherwise no one would be able to understand what we were trying to communicate. You don't seem to share those concerns. "None of whom clearly haven't read it"? Does that mean that some of them have read it?

Also, the Supreme Court also ruled on the constitutionality of Dred Scott. Is the SCOTUS as infallible as the Pope when he speaks ex cathedra?

9:25 am You shouldn't listen to anyone else,including the " anti-everything-Obama" people. You should read and study yourself so you wouldn't be so easily manipulated.

I am at a loss to understand how anyone can be blindly partisan in the face of such overwhelming evidence that all political parties have lied to their base and made decisions and mistakes which literally cost Americans their lives. A rational person should know that political parties are not infallible and don't attract only saints.

Your Dred Scott analogy is silly 11:10 AM given that this SCOTUS is hardly predisposed to support a liberal agenda while the Dred Scott SCOTUS was predisposed to rule as they did.

I do ,however, thank you for editing my remarks. I was in a hurry and didn't take the time to edit myself. I, too, learned better in grade school and managed to get post graduate degrees despite my poor typing skills and that I sometimes change sentences in the middle without looking back at where I began while writing. I also don't use spell check for blogging.

You still managed to understand my meaning, though, didn't you?

9:04 am No, there wasn't anything about a delay. That is about implementation and not a change in the Act. You should be insulted that your party imagines you so lacking in knowledge of government and how it works so as to make you think the delay is significant in the scheme of things. Delays in the nuts and bolts of implementation of legislation happen routinely as Congress doesn't administrate, they legislate. Such delays are seldom noticed but desperation causes the desperate to make mountains of molehills.

There is no question the Obama administration deserves an enormous amount of criticism for administrative inefficiency and errors.

There is no question that Obamacare needs to undergo some changes that Congress will have to address. Obama, however, didn't write the Act. He took a bill already in existence to Congress. It is a bill for which Bob Dole should get credit or blame and that has been modified along the way including by Romney who used the Dole model bill in Massachusetts.

The bill is not the idea of some socialist but rather a way to try to appease the insurance and medical industries who hate the single payer option.

It is an attempt to try to deal with medical costs in a broken health care system. Yes, I know some of you don't think it's broken because you don't want to believe it. But, again see how we are falling behind while our costs are soaring.

Response to 8:08-
9:04 am "No, there wasn't anything about a delay. - That is about implementation and not a change in the Act. "

Convenient words for you to spin the acts of the Presidential lawbreaker.

"You should be insulted that your party imagines you so lacking in knowledge of government and how it works so as to make you think the delay is significant in the scheme of things. Delays in the nuts and bolts of implementation of legislation happen routinely as Congress doesn't administrate, they legislate. Such delays are seldom noticed but desperation causes the desperate to make mountains of molehills."

For the record, the Republican party is NOT my party.

"There is no question the Obama administration deserves an enormous amount of criticism for administrative inefficiency and errors."

Who is going to do this? The Media? The Senate? The Supreme Court? – Your response is just another perfunctory answer from an elite socialist.

Yes – the HC system is broken, but putting the Government in charge is idiotic, wasteful, and will do nothing but exacerbate the problem.

I apologize for wasting your valuable time.

Good bye House Repubs from Mississippi.

We see that your new 'idea' is to RAISE the debt ceiling, fully fund gov, absolutely NOTHING about defunding Ocare despite the horrors that are all over the internet.

You boys are about as strong as a wet paper towel. I guess you needed to raise the debt ceiling cause you needed more earmarks for your friends.

So thanks, guys, nothing like our reps telling us to bend over, shut up, and take it. And if the dems think this is great, don't. the reason I despise what our Reps are doing is because it is straight out of the Dem handbook.

Nunnelee, Harper, Palazzo, Cochram, Wicker:

You are pathetic in your non representation for Mississippians. You all have decided that you can continually lie to us and either (a) you think we are stupid enough to believe you or (b) you are stupid enough to believe your own press. Unlike you all, we can actually read the laws and the constitution and understand them. So you either (a) cant read or (b) you can read and simply find that screwing Americans is the better option for you. And the vile you have heaved upon members of your own party who did something you had no interest in doing--listening to the American people--is repulsive.

Since you did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to help stop Obamacare when you had everything you needed to do so for the last couple of years, may you all be blessed with the same hardships you have heaved upon us.

Nunnelee, Harper, Palazzo, Cochran (2014) and Wicker (2018)—may you all be replaced with someone who actually works FOR the people of this state. I’ll be making contributions to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. I won’t be pulling the old lever for you boys ever again. And if you think this will all blow over, you’re wrong because we will be living the nightmare that YOU all allowed to happen. and I'll be happy to explain it to anyone who is confused on who to support.

Its dumbfounding that our state has absolutely no conservative representation.