ObamaCare Rollout: Feds to Use “Consumer Reporting Agencies” to Determine Eligibility
It looks like young Ezra (and, to be fair, everybody else) missed a major policy change in Obama’s shift to the new, shorter (for individuals*), final version of the basic application for ObamaCare.** As it turns out, the issue (or at least one of the issues; gawd knows what other time bombs are buried in the thing) wasn’t only the length and complexity of the form, though that was and is bad enough; the issue is the actual content of the form. Here’s what I’m talking about. It’s right in plain sight. I’m using a screen dump of the new, shorter, finalized form from Ezra’s article:
Figure 1.
Here are the key passages as text for Figure 1:
I’m signing this application under penalty of perjury, which means I’ve provided true answers to all the questions on this form to the best of my knowledge. I know that I may be subject to penalties under federal law if I intentionally provide false or untrue information. …
We need this information to check your eligibility for help paying for health coverage if you choose to apply. We’ll check your answers using information in our electronic databases and databases from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security, the Department of Homeland Security, and/or a consumer reporting agency. If the information doesn’t match, we may ask you to send us proof.
Yes, Equifax (a “consumer reporting agency”) could be affecting your eligibility for ObamaCare (a Federal program). Now, this is a major policy change, or perhaps a policy determination. Here’s the equivalent language in the draft 26-page “Single Streamlined Application.” As you can see, the language had not then been finalized.
Here are the key passages as text for Figure 2:
As part of the Privacy step, an individual also provides agreement and consent for their information to be used and retrieved from data sources. They also agree that they have permission from all other persons they may list on the application for their information to be used and retrieved as part of the application process for verifying the household’s information in order to make eligibility determinations. The specific components of the consent language are still under review across the federal agencies, but the essence of the language will address the basic agreement to the retrieval and use of their household’s data for verifying information and making eligibility determinations and will include language that agreement is provided under penalty of perjury and understanding of potential prosecution for false information (similar to when a person signs and submits the application).
ObamaCare Rollout: Feds to Use “Consumer Reporting Agencies” to Determine Eligibility Despite Penalty for Perjury
By lambert strether of Corrente. Originally published at Corrente.
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/05/obamacare-rollout-feds-to-use-consumer-reporting-agencies-to-determine-eligibility-despite-penalty-for-perjury.html
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SS# and checking with IRS should be all they need..to see if one qualifies. Why bring in the other groups? 
a bill that wasn't mine, off my credit report from Equifax. Christ on a crutch, what fucking moron make these decisions. 
have to do with anything that would get a post of yours "hidden" to me?
Is this a "Shoot the Messenger" for some unknown reason post of you to me?
Go to the link and read it all and the comments there. I took the time to do that...I hope you and others will, also.
This is certainly not a "Freeper or Questionable Website" that this is from. So, please don't try to infer that.
