"I hope this hearing today is not an attempt to do that."
"Such privacy breaches are unacceptable and should not happen at all."
"This was not a sudden decision late in June, that the administration thought this was a bad idea, let's delay it."
"So the first you'd heard about this at all or people at CMS had heard about this at all was June 24th or 25th?"
"Is there a mechanism in place--was there a plan to have a mechanism in place for 2014 for employers to be able to verify their employees do have qualified health plans?"
"Is that mechanism in place now?"
"So, regardless, employers weren't going to report either way?"
"And that was the plan from the beginning?"
"There's a tremendous amount of credit information out there that's in error, obviously."
"Just false information at all is hard enough to be able to track on it."
"No, not necessarily. No, it's an individual that has access to the information; they're authenticated as a person that is an employee there."
"Right. I'm talking about just the background of how do we show that this person, once they've accessed data, that data that they accessed is for official purposes, not unofficial purposes."