Obamacare - a three-fer

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First - CBS is one of the mainstream media outlets that are in the tank for Obama and his policies. They released results of a recent poll and 57% of people disapprove of Obama's work and 61% disapprove of Obamacare. Second - from the Miami, FL CBS affiliate:
HHS Secretary Sebelius Visits South Florida To Meet With Healthcare Navigators
Seven weeks to the day since the troubled healthcare.gov website was launched, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Miami, meeting with so-called �navigators� who are helping the public get signed up for coverage.

Sebelius is a member of the President�s Cabinet. With all the suits, security and cameras following her, you would have thought that President Obama was visiting Tuesday afternoon in what was clearly a highly orchestrated media event to focus on the positive, after so many negative media reports about the Obamacare sign-up process.
More:
At a second table, the secretary met Carmen Salero who was trying to sign up online. As the secretary and Salero made small talk, CBS4′s Brian Andrews noticed the site crash on the lap top in front of them.

�The screen says I�m sorry but the system is temporarily down,� Andrews pointed out. �Uh oh,� responded the secretary.
Heh... Third - from FOX News:
Healthcare.gov �may already have been compromised,� security expert says
Not only is healthcare.gov at risk, it may already have been compromised, a security expert testified before the Senate.

�Hackers are definitely after it,� said David Kennedy, CEO of information security firm TrustedSEC before a House Science, Space, and Technology committee hearing on security concerns surrounding the problematic Healthcare.gov website.

�And if I had to guess, based on what I can see � I would say the website is either hacked already or will be soon.�

Kennedy told FoxNews.com he based this on an analysis revealing a large number of SQL injection attacks against the healthcare.gov website, which are indicative of "a large amount" of hacking attempts.

"Based on the exposures that I identified, and many that I haven�t published due to the criticality of exposures � if a hacker wanted access to the site or sensitive information � they could get it," he told FoxNews.com.

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the nation's new healthcare website, did not immediately respond to a request to for more information.

One key problem facing Healthcare.gov is that security wasn�t built into the site from the very beginning, he said -- an opinion shared by both Kennedy and Fred Chang, the distinguished chair in cyber security at Southern Methodist University.
Oopsie...

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