More Obamacare fuckups

[Gelston]

I am going to chalk it up to people not storing socials and account numbers in plain text and enforcing better encryption on the web. The login for my online bank account was my social until 2009/2010?

That could be a big part of it. With all the news stories about companies and organizations losing socials so often, I imagine it boiled out to companies and organizations not wanting to be in the position where it could be them with their names in the headlines for the same thing.

[Thondalar]

Just about every minor law enforcement agency in the country. Call your local police station and ask them how they police someone stealing your information, opening a credit card account and using it online, in Singapore.

How do I know? Because in 2007 it happened to me and nobody did anything to help me out and I still get calls from creditors to this day and in fact was declined a refinance just this past August because it showed up again. It took several weeks to get it cleared up and this also meant the rates went higher(costing me money and time).

Until recently, Identity Theft wasn't even a thing. Now it's the fastest-growing crime trend in the country. I'm sorry that nobody helped you out six years ago, but right now...most of my mother's case load is related to identity theft. She's an Intelligence Analyst for FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement).

A victimless crime, by it's definition, is a crime you commit against yourself. Gambling, prostitution, and drugs would be victimless crimes. Identity theft is not a victimless crime.

[Tgo01]

I can't believe the VA/military and medicare (medicaid too?) use social security numbers still. Medicare has the social security number right on the card and every time my dad goes to the VA he has to give his last four to at least half a dozen people, usually within earshot of a waiting room full of people and sometimes he has to give his full social security number, again within earshot of a waiting room full of people. Also the ID cards they issue has his social security number printed on it.

Thanks, Obama!

[Atlanteax]

Actually, we should let illegal immigrants stay in the country (and work) ... BUT we should deny them health services & etc.

The later costs taxpayers, but the former at least helps pad the social security system funding, as no dime will ever be paid back out to the illegals.

[Jarvan]

Exactly Jarvan! You've highlighted another GOP urban legend which is the story of the uninsured illegal alien bankrupting the country. This is one reason why people can't understand the GOP's opposition to an individual mandate. It's straight out of their playbook. Like I said before, it makes no damn sense, except when you consider that if the Democrats take all the GOP's issues, then the republican candidates have no reason to be elected so it becomes important for them to go find new scary things to campaign about.

SS an Medicare are bankrupting the country, not Illegal Immigrants.

[Back]

LOL @ making claim of reduced insurance costs before actually under new/modified insurance.

I can browse the plans just not sign up yet. And if you don't believe how much I said I'm saving there is nothing I can do abou that.

[Buckwheet]

Until recently, Identity Theft wasn't even a thing. Now it's the fastest-growing crime trend in the country. I'm sorry that nobody helped you out six years ago, but right now...most of my mother's case load is related to identity theft. She's an Intelligence Analyst for FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement).

A victimless crime, by it's definition, is a crime you commit against yourself. Gambling, prostitution, and drugs would be victimless crimes. Identity theft is not a victimless crime.

I can assure you that nobody I have spoken with gives two shits about my cases. Every year our mail gets stolen multiple times with credit cards and applications in it and I would say once every year to two years we get a call from fraud operations and it just goes away now. Essentially its a victimless crime, if you read your Wikipedia page it says in there even that even though experts disagree companies are not a person so they are not a victim when stuff gets stolen.

I have a Capital One credit card that someone opened up in my name during college(1998) that I have never held the physical card. No matter how many times I call, write, or complain it still sits there as $6500 in unused credit. Maybe Florida has the resources to deal with it but Maplewood Police, Ramsey County Sheriff, and St. Paul police don't do jack shit about it here in MN. They even have you fill out a report over the phone and it just gets filed with no work done on it and they call it a victimless crime.

There are so many other crimes that they need to be researching, they don't have the money to deal with credit card thieves and people who open up accounts in your name to buy shit.

Here is a funny recap of it from 1989:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=2325,3281952

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Every year our mail gets stolen multiple times with credit cards and applications in it and I would say once every year to two years we get a call from fraud operations and it just goes away now.

Where the fuck do you live that your mail is stolen multiple times?

[cwolff]

I can't believe the VA/military and medicare (medicaid too?) use social security numbers still. Medicare has the social security number right on the card and every time my dad goes to the VA he has to give his last four to at least half a dozen people, usually within earshot of a waiting room full of people and sometimes he has to give his full social security number, again within earshot of a waiting room full of people. Also the ID cards they issue has his social security number printed on it.

Thanks, Obama!

Maybe he has an old card. Mine just has my picture and name on the front with a magnetic strip on the back.

[Buckwheet]

Where the fuck do you live that your mail is stolen multiple times?

I live in ~100 home neighborhood with two entrance points that is off the main drag of a highway. Nobody is home during the day for the most part and so we attract a lot of criminal activity because of the area we are located. You can pull off the highway get into the neighborhood and out in less then 2 minutes. I live in Maplewood MN specifically, where the average response time of police for a non-violent crime is over 40 minutes.

Additionally, we frequently get drunks and high speed chase people who zip off the highway and duck into the neighborhood to try and elude St. Paul police.