Health care records for millions of Americans is missing according to a report by ABC News. The missing data also includes Social Security numbers for about two million of Health Net Inc.’s past and current customers. The company announced this week that it’s missing several hard drives from its data center which is located in the Sacramento area.

The California Department of Managed Health Care issued a news release saying that nine server drives are unaccounted for and that it’s investigating the missing information. The department believes about 1.9 million people could be impacted. Of those, more than 622,000 have insurance products regulated by the state Department of Managed Health Care, more than 223,000 are currently enrolled in California Department of Insurance products and another portion are Medicare clients.  “Obviously something went wrong, but we don’t know,” department spokeswoman Denise Schmidt said according to ABC News.

Health Net has about six million customers and this is not their first experience with data loss, according to reports. Back in January the company paid about $55,000 in a settlement over the loss of similar information of 1.5 million people. The incident happened in Vermont and customers were not told about the potential security breech for six months. ABC says IBM handles the company’s information technology.

Apparently, certain liberal groups have taken aim at Senator Max Baucus through some targeted health-care ads, which have appeared on television. The focus of progressives is to get a more liberal health care bill the attention they feel it deserves.

One of the major issues that are being highlighted by the current health-care reform debate is the plight of the uninsured in the United States. The controversy is a heated one, dividing along party lines in many cases and making any sort of bi-partisan solution difficult to conceive – let along execute.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have already called for a hearing that would focus on the President’s decision to probe one of the country’s major insurance companies at the request of Senator Max Baucus.

The chances that a viable government insurance plan will be passed are sinking by the day as legislators continue jockeying for support in their respective quarters.

Now, more than ever, Americans are rating their health insurance company lower in terms of overall coverage and performance much lower than their auto insurer, life insurer, or bank.

While speculation abounds concerning what effects a serious effort at revamping the U.S. health-care system would have on Medicare, there remain questions that can only be answered by those who currently maintain and operate the program’s multi-faceted features.

While there is this impression that Democrats and Republicans are squarely split over the particulars of President Obama’s health-care agenda, a vital truth is being obscured. There is a surprising amount of agreement between the two parties regarding certain proposals that would give millions of Americans a shot at medical insurance.

Members of the Senate Finance Committee are not considering new measures that are meant to target those insurers who offer top-tier plans in an effort to find sufficient revenue to offset the costs of proposed health care reforms.

It may not be surprising to some on Capitol Hill that one of the big constituencies that may affect the health-care debate the most includes hundreds of small business owners. In fact, this demographic is presenting some serious challenges to the Obama Administration’s efforts to overhaul health care.