This is just too, too much.
Equifax Inc., which said last week it suffered a breach that exposed the personal data of 143 million Americans, holds a contract to check incomes and other data of people who bought health insurance in the Obamacare markets.
The credit data firm has a $329 million, five-year government contract which ends in March to verify the incomes of people purchasing coverage through the health exchanges. The Affordable Care Act provides subsidies to help people afford health insurance depending on their income levels.
Government officials that administer the Obamacare program were informed the data wasn’t part of the breach and is continuing to monitor the situation, an HHS spokesperson said. The Equifax breach affected almost half the U.S. population. Equifax didn’t return questions seeking comment on Monday.
Gee, I sure do trust Trump's HHS to be on top of this, don't you? I mean, it's not like HHS Secretary Tom Price and Trump himself are doing everything in their power to sabotage Obamacare and try to kill it off.
If the mass negligence that has jeopardized half the population's financial lives, on top of the very likely insider trading by company officials isn't enough to get Congress to haul some Equifax corporate asses before them for hearings, the fact that they're getting hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds with this contract should do the trick.