700,000 people in the US lose their health insurance coverage

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services discloses that 700,00 people have lost their insurance coverage since May of this year Some 700,000 people in the U.S. have lost their health insurance coverage since May of this year, according to testimony from Marylyn Tavenner, Administrator of the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. This information was disclosed during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. During the hearing, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services was criticized for its lack of transparency and its apparent inability to manage data security…

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Health insurance exchanges could have had serious security issues in the past

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New information shows that exchanges were developed hastily by the federal government Health insurance exchanges in the U.S. could have been plagued by serious security issues as they were being formed, according to information from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Several states had opted to allow the federal government to develop insurance exchanges rather than building these exchanges themselves. Because the federal government faced a serious deadline concerning getting these exchanges up and running. As such, the government may have left some aspects of the exchange network vulnerable.…

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