Something caught my eye, buried deep in the weeds of the chatter re: the ObamaCare web site fiasco.
Forbes had an early-on article theorizing that a major cause of the web site problems was the Feds insistance that folks shouldn’t see potentially shocking list prices, but rather should input a lot of their private data so that they can be flashed a net price – after government subsidies.
That’s old news … and, you can believe it or not.
Here’s the passage that got me thinking:
The core problem stems from “the slate of registration systems [that] intersect with Oracle Identity Manager, a software component embedded in a government identity-checking system.”
The main Healthcare.gov web page collects information using CGI Group technology.
Then that data is transferred to a system built by Quailty Software Services.
QSS then sends data to Experian, the credit-history firm.
Hmmm
Experian – one the 3 major credit bureaus.
Why get a private sector credit bureau involved?
At first, I thought the Feds might have stumbled on a borderline brilliant idea …
The Homa Files 