ACA Title 1,Sec. 1414. Disclosures to carry out eligibility requirements for certain programs: “Good” – A necessary evil? This provision provides authority for the sharing of IRS individual taxpayer information among exchanges and the federal government for the purposes of determining the eligibility of the individual to receive subsidies, premium tax credits and cost reductions under the Law. I consider this a “necessary evil” because without it wholesale fraud would be rampant. At the same time I am certainly not comfortable with my own taxpayer information being placed in other federal and state hands, particularly when private business has such a difficult time keeping individual data secure, such as the Target data breach. Does this make you nervous?

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