"Privacy has been a big issue for me," Scott told a meeting of the Florida Cabinet held in downtown Miami. "We don't know how this information is going to be used."

A new Florida law requires navigators to have training provided by the federal government and for them to be fingerprinted, with background checks conducted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater told a cabinet briefing he was concerned the federal Department of Health and Human Services will say Florida is "suppressing participation" in the new healthcare system by enforcing the requirements of Florida's law.

Just six weeks before enrollment is scheduled to begin, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said the navigators and their assistants have yet to be hired. And Attorney General Pam Bondi said their planned 30 hours of training has been cut to 20 because of time constraints.

"It remains to be seen whether the information that people will provide, to give navigators assistance, is safe," said McCarty. "The information given by applicants will be shared by the Health and Human Services and other federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration, Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service."

The Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman responded to Scott's comments, noting that HHS has run in-person assistance programs for years to help Americans enroll in Medicare and Medicaid.

"Contrary to Gov. Scott's statements, consumers will never be asked to provide their personal health information to the marketplace, whether through a navigator or not," said spokeswoman Joanne Peters. "There is no such database of American's health information, and multiple independent fact checkers have debunked this claim."

McCarty told Scott and the Cabinet that "there are laws and rules" against using applicant information for any purpose other than enrollment in insurance plans, but "there are serious doubts about whether the information is adequately protected by the computer systems, and whether criteria for hiring navigators and assisters is sufficient."

Bondi, who on August 14 wrote a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to express concern about the scope of information being collected, said the state is not trying to impede the healthcare law. Florida decided not to set up its own exchanges by October 1, the start of open enrollment, leaving that to the federal government. The state was also the lead plaintiff in an unsuccessful lawsuit aimed at overturning the national plan.

"This has nothing to do with anything except protecting our citizens from identity theft," Bondi said. "We have a lot of questions we need to have answers to."

After the meeting, Scott said he was not trying to thwart the health plan. He said the new state law will allow Atwater's department to know who the navigators are, but not what the federal government does with personal data they collect.

"You should know, if it's your information, how it's going to be used, when they're going to use it, what agencies are going to have it," Scott added.

(Reporting by Zachary Fagenson in Miami and Bill Cotterell in Tallahassee.; Editing by David Adams, Gunna Dickson and Andre Grenon)

(BTW, Governor Scott also presided over a law requiring people involved in auto accidents to seek medical care for injuries within 14 days or forfeit their right to seek redress of grievance. You're the type to just see if it'll  just go away first?
The type who can't be bothered to think of anything but the dying son or husband you're tending? The kind who doesn't have transportation to or money for a doctor right then? 
Misunderstood the form letter the other party's insurance company sent and waited for them to contact you?
YOU ARE OFFICIALLY SCREWED--and the insurance companies' profits from this alone continue to grow. All courtesy of Governor Scott.)