{"id":47197,"date":"2014-01-08T07:09:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=47197"},"modified":"2014-01-08T07:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T12:09:22","slug":"latta-co-sponsors-health-exchange-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/01\/08\/latta-co-sponsors-health-exchange-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta co-sponsors health exchange bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has co-sponsored H.R. 3811, the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act.\u00a0 This legislation, sponsored by Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA), would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to notify individuals if their personal information has been stolen or unlawfully accessed through a federal or state exchange system.\u00a0 This notification must be done no later than two business days after the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHearings in the House Energy &amp; Commerce Committee, on which I serve, revealed that the Administration did not complete adequate security testing prior to healthcare.gov going live on October 1,\u201d Latta said. \u201cAmericans deserve to know if their personal information is put at risk due to Obamacare, and this legislation will ensure that HHS gives notice to individuals when their information is jeopardized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, prompt action on this important legislation is needed, so that American\u2019s information is safe and secure.\u00a0 I encourage HHS to work to ensure that individual\u2019s personal information is protected in the health care exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has co-sponsored H.R. 3811, the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act.\u00a0 This legislation, sponsored by Congressman Joe Pitts (R-PA), would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to notify individuals if their personal information has been stolen or unlawfully accessed through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 00:04:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}