This is troubling. A director for one of the outreach and enrollment centers, serving as navigators to facilitate the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as some like to say, was found to have outstanding warrants. the person in question apparently has a civil charge for a bad check, is in arrears on her tax bills, and has an outstanding arrest warrant for, so far, unspecified charges.
Apparently, the federal government did not require background checks on the ACA navigators. To me this increases the risk of identity theft. The navigator, I would assume, while facilitating the healthcare process, would be given access to an applicants private data. Someone desperate could lift the applicant’s identity and use it in any number of ways. Most of them are illegal.
I find it odd that while it is for just cause people are demanding background checks for firearms purchases, the navigators with access to ACA applicant’s personal data are getting a pass.
This article from the Daily Caller is of interest. Millions of persons are victims of identity theft every year. I would think it imprudent for any official body to be enablers of this additional crime.
Here is an excerpt from the article…”“[T]he main concern for consumers is the heightened risk of identity theft and financial loss from a poorly managed outreach campaign,” the Oversight Committee report said. “Navigators and Assisters will come into contact with a plethora of personally identifiable information (PII), including an applicant’s Social Security number, date of birth and income, as well as the PII of everyone in an applicant’s household.”
The Obama administration’s decision not to require background checks for navigators compounds the privacy risks, the Oversight Committee wrote.”
