Mitch McConnell Seeks Delay For Obamacare Insurance Exchanges

[Botany]

Source: Reutuers

(Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called on the Obama administration to delay the Oct. 1 opening of exchanges where uninsured Americans will be able to buy health insurance until the U.S. government can guarantee the protection of people's personal data.

The exchanges, a key element of the president's signature 2010 healthcare law dubbed "Obamacare," will be largely online.

In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency taking the lead in implementing the law, McConnell said that "Americans should not be forced into the exchanges, and certainly not without these assurances" that personal and financial data will be safe from "hackers and cyber criminals."

"If you rush to go forward without adequate safeguards in place," McConnell added, "any theft of personal information from constituents will be the result of your rush to implement a law to meet the agency's political needs and not the operational needs of the people it is supposed to serve."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/mitch-mcconnell-obamacare_n_3744711.html

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"hackers and cyber criminals."????????

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Man are the republicans scared shitless of the A.C.A. because they know it will work and it will be popular.

[djean111]

1. What a hypocrite. Guess this is the newest attempt to stop things.

hackers and cyber criminals - bwah! the NSA?

[Botany]

2. He and his offices already have email address, web sites, face book links, and he does the twitter

Does he even know how much federal business is done electronically?


Mitch is scared shitless of the A.C.A..

[BlueManFan]

17. Mitch is scared shitless about being "primaried" because he doesn't represent the "foaming mouth"

angry right, just the angry right. Ergo, he's a liberal now. Every time one of these republican assholes gets primaried by someone more ridiculously right wing than they are I am aglow with a sense of Shadenfreude.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

28. Mitch is a dino who should retire

[BlueManFan]

29. If you believe the polls in Kentucky he's about to "retire."

[kardonb]

20. Mich ,

keep running your head against the wall , it will mush the rest of your brain , if there is any left by now .

[Auggie]

7. Yes ... right wing think tanks are working overtime

[MsPithy]

3. "Rush" to implement the law?

RUSH?

People, without healthcare, are dying out here.

[DainBramaged]

4. Republicans want poor people to die

fuck Republicans

[freshwest]

22. 'Yeah, but what about Obama's FEMA death camps?' Frigging gop-ers.

[The Magistrate]

5. People Imagining NSA Hysteria, Sir, Is Not Part Of A Rightist 'Stop Obama' Political Effort

Need to pay close attention to this. Similar lines of attack are emerging against the Consumer Protection Agency.

Nothing happens in a vacuum, and the right is prepared to turn what left activists are pushing in regard to intelligence work into a useful tool for rousing 'hate big gub'mint' sentiments to a fever pitch against both signature achievements of President Obama's administration, presenting them as unconscionable tyrannical intrusions on citizens' privacy, just like the NSA....

[pnwmom]

9. Yes. But since Snowden himself is a libertarian, I don't rule out the possibility

that all this was hatched from the beginning as an attack on the Obama administration from people like Rand Paul.

I still haven't seen any evidence that the Obama administration has done anything that the Congress didn't authorize him to do. And the Republicans have been backing this legislation by huge majorities. And yet now they're using it to club Obama with.

[The Magistrate]

10. Nor Do I, Ma'am

That he did it to do damage to President Obama, for advancement of his own political views, seems very likely to me. 'Lefter than thou' types like Mr. Greenwald can be counted on as 'useful idiots' in such a scheme: Lenin's claim a capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him could be revised to state a left journalist will publish the article that will put reactionaries into office....

[Mojorabbit]

15. All the left has to do is stand on the right side of the issue as most did in the house vote.

If we let the right have this privacy issue as a campaign item then we deserve to lose.

[Berlum]

6. What FAIL freaks the Republicons are

Lord almightEE, they will do any skanky thing they can to bring America down.

[msanthrope]

8. Don't worry, Mitch, the ACA will be using a secret tube that the hackers can't find. nt

[robinlynne]

11. Noone in the world can guarantee that info is safe from "cyber criminals', not even the pentagon....

Isn't this kind of obvious?

[Bandit]

12. Exchanges were the one major thing Republicans wanted so people could shop around

Across State Lines was their one and only idea to help people lower their Health Care costs...Now it seems they are against even that..

[SansACause]

13. Panic mode!

This reeks of sheer blind panic! They'll do anything to try to make Obamacare be as bad as they've been campaigning on for 4 years.

[jpak]

14. FU turtledoosh

yup

[leftyohiolib]

16. well potus seems to be in a delay mood lately

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. very true. He seems to be caving for no reason ...

... are we seeing Obamacare vanish because of Obama?

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Why, of course, we wouldn't want the exchanges to be working before

the 2014 election. Wouldn't want anything positive to come from ACA. That's the Republican plan.

[Puzzledtraveller]

19. he'll get his wish

they will be delayed anyway.

[freshwest]

21. They're gonna ride this elephant through 2014.

[Warren Stupidity]

23. After giving this reasonable suggestion all the consideration it merits,

Mitch can go fuck off. No. The ridiculous delay implementing the ACA is over. Times up.

[The Second Stone]

24. Medicare for all

including members of Congress and the President.

[bemildred]

25. Mitch plays lousy chess. nt

[underpants]

27. Stop it!! They might see that is works!!!