Obamacare Online = Big Data Repository?

While everyone has recently been talking about the government shutdown (for good reason), another HUGE thing that just happened was that ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act) went online! https://www.healthcare.gov/

OK, so the process and benefits might be a little confusing. But once you get into the application (might take a while due to the traffic), it asks for alot of data!

ObamaCare is positioning itself to be the biggest healthcare data repository in the US (and perhaps the world)! What is the government planning to do with all this data?

There will be an opportunity for healthcare providers to mine and analyze this data. If healthcare providers can leverage this data like in business, real insights can be drawn and infrastructure can hopefully be improved.