Is there a health insurance company anywhere that never uses computers?
One of the papers I print is the Teabagger Times - all hard right, all the time. These guys have hard-right barbershop ads. They printed 20 pages yesterday, 19 of them had at least one right-wing thing on them, and the 20th page was a tire ad that couldn't have any political content because they use an agency that deals with every paper west of Rapid City and they don't want to piss off either Moses Lake teabaggers or Berkeley granola fans. (The tire store manager runs an ad of his own explaining the government is the evil bunch responsible for making your tire change more expensive if you have tire pressure monitoring. I wonder if they know who wrote that law.)
Yesterday's edition contained a front-page attack on Obamacare from two local insurance agents. One of them said he tried doing a policy on the exchange but stopped just before hitting send because he was worried about the security of the customer's personal information. He decided to do a paper application and mail it in instead.
The rest of it was the standard tea party crap about high deductibles and the like, followed by the standard "repeal is the only way to fix this" line. The part about the paper application was a bit strange: last I checked, any insurance company operating today does everything on computers. If the guy's information is vulnerable to data thieves when input from the exchange it will also be vulnerable when input from the insurance company's document scanner.
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