[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               OBAMACARE

  (Mr. GARRETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, your privacy is under attack. The 
Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare, is creating a data hub for every 
American's personal health information and financial information. It's 
basically a central location for all of America, for all of your 
private and sensitive information.
  Can America really trust this system that has key information on your 
income, your Social Security numbers, your emails, your family size, 
your medical records, and the list goes on? The answer is ``no.''
  With the ObamaCare data hub, an American's personal information will 
be shared from the Department of Justice, the Social Security 
Administration, the Department of Homeland Security. The IRS will send 
information, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services.
  We have already witnessed many security breaches within numerous 
government agencies, and the potential for abuse here is staggering. We 
know a system like this will be attractive to identity thieves. It is 
clear that a system that has not been tested for security systems 
cannot adequately protect all of our security information and our 
personal information. We have even witnessed privacy abuses by other 
government agencies--by the NSA, by the IRS.
  The Obama data hub will end privacy as we know it and will grant 
unprecedented power over citizens to the government.

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