Thread: Obamacare - WE ARE SCREWED

Originally Posted by juroara

But she also discovered something seriously disturbing when you sign up on the website. In order to enroll you have to sign away your computer privacy rights to just about every single government agency you can come up with. What the hell does monitoring your computer activity has to do with health care?

It sounds like maybe she just misunderstood the terms and conditions. Is this the part you're talking about?

Terms & Conditions

So that HealthCare.gov remains accurate and available to you and all other visitors, we monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to the web service. Use of this system constitutes consent to such monitoring and auditing. Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec.1001 and 1030.

To continue, you must accept the terms and conditions. If you decline, your login will automatically be cancelled.

That's the message that pops up when you enroll. They're just letting you know they monitor the network traffic on their site. They're not snooping around your computer.

Anyway - you know there are exemptions based on income, right? If buying health insurance would cost you more than 8% of your income, you're not required to buy it, you're exempt from the fee.

For me, ACA's made health care more affordable, so I'm pretty pleased with it.