And that was the plan from the beginning?
Just false information at all is hard enough to be able to track on it.
Such privacy breaches are unacceptable and should not happen at all.
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...
Right. I'm talking about just the background of how do we show that this person, once they've accessed data, that data t...
No, not necessarily. No, it's an individual that has access to the information; they're authenticated as a person that i...
This was not a sudden decision late in June, that the administration thought this was a bad idea, let's delay it.
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. It has been upheld by the United States Supreme Court.
Is that mechanism in place now?
So, regardless, employers weren't going to report either way?