Obamacare Site News: Healthcare.gov Hacked Over Summer, GOP Renews Fight Against Affordable Care Act
A harmless hack into the healthcare.gov website this summer has received an overflow of media attention after being pushed into the spotlight by Republicans.
No personal, financial or health data was compromised in the attack, Politico reports. But that hasn't stopped the GOP from demanding an investigation and further explanation after the information of the hack came to light Thursday.
The GOP has made demands for hearings into the administration's security policies for the site, Politico reports.
The demands are no surprise since they voted numerous times to repeal the Affordable Care Act and have not given up hope to do so.
"Today's news that HealthCare.gov was hacked should come as a surprise to no one," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), told Politico. "Despite numerous warnings from myself and other lawmakers that security breaches were possible, HealthCare.gov underwent virtually no independent security testing. ... It's yet another deeply disturbing failure of the president's health law, and once again it is the American people who are bearing the brunt of the law's failures."
But any hope to repeal the law will have to wait until 2017, the Huffington Post reports.
In a clip obtained by The Undercurrent, from a June retreat hosted by the Koch brothers, Marc Short, president of the Koch-backed non-profit group Freedom Partners, said, "If Republicans can control the House and the Senate, we would, in fact, (inaudible) one of the last opportunities (inaudible) at repealing Obamacare. I acknowledge the President will never sign legislation that repeals it,but it does provide the opportunity to begin to defund central elements of it and begin to peel it back."
Though the hack announced Thursday, which took place in July, was not severe, some took to social media and expressed their sentiments in snarky comments aimed at the NSA or Obamacare in general.
"Note to hacker: next time delete entire Program. Thanks. #Obamacare," tweeted @Rockprincess818.
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