Obamacare Navigators Busted

FreedomWorks

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James O’Keefe, the man who helped bring down ACORN through a series of undercover videos, has struck again.
This time, O’Keefe and Project Veritas have uncovered fraud and corruption in the Obamacare navigator program.
Over $67 million dollars in taxpayer funded grants have been directed to the program to help Americans enroll in the Obamacare exchanges.
The latest effort must have given O’Keefe a sense of déjà vu considering Wade Rathke, ACORN’s highly controversial founder, was among the recipients of this money through a group he created after ACORN disbanded.


A Texas navigator site run by the National Urban League is targeted in a new video that depicts “government-paid workers supposedly trained to uphold the law advise clients on how to lie on government forms, evade legal requirements, and ignore proper procedures,” John Fund reported in an article for National Review Online.
The video captures one navigator advising a Project Veritas investigator to lie about smoking, and another telling him not to report income made on the side.
O’Keefe’s cameras then visit Enroll America, a nationwide nonprofit group launched to help folks sign up for health coverage. A group advertised as being “not partisan, non-political.”
But when an official for Enroll America is introduced at an event, the group is said to be “the official group for the DNC [Democratic National Committee].”
Furthermore, according to O’Keefe, Enroll America looks to be working with Battleground Texas, an organization “started by President Obama’s national field director” and is “dedicated to turning Texas blue” — a description Fund attributed to a regional field director for Battleground Texas.
It sounds as if the spirit of ACORN is alive and well, represented by another taxpayer funded scheme that will serve as little more than an extension of the Democratic Party reelection effort. -Tom Tollison
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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dude, i heard about this nonsense more than 12 days ago, with jefferson public radio fading away as i climbed over mount ashland.

you waited to post about this until james o'keefe got involved?

that really only detracts from the topic at hand, unless of course you think that attaching a known liar and deceiver to your case makes it stronger.

the rest of us just call that stupid, chumlee.

but we have come to expect nothing but the finest stupidity from you, so way to remain consistent.
 
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ChesusRice

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Wow that is three times today that I heard ACORN tied in with the navigators


Gee I wonder if this has anything to do with another Republican hatchet job that will pan out to nothing
 
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beenthere said:
Hey moron, you still talk about Mitt and GW, fuck, Bush was president when you were riding a bigwheel.
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WHY SO BITTER, LITTLE MAN?

SHOULDN'T YOU GET OFF THE INTERNET, GET A LIFE, GET A FUCKING JOB, AND PAY SOME FUCKING TAXES?

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By Phil GalewitzKHN Staff Writer
Sep 18, 2013
The White House on Wednesday unveiled several steps to protect consumers from fraud in the new online health insurance marketplaces, a move that comes after 17 states hostile to the law acted to limit the spread of information about the program, and congressional Republicans raised concerns about the privacy of medical and financial records.
"We are sending a clear message that we will not tolerate anyone seeking to defraud consumers in the health insurance marketplace," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Senior administration officials acknowledged the potential for scams with any new government program, including the Obamacare marketplaces that open for enrollment Oct. 1 and are expected to help 7 million Americans get coverage next year.
But they stressed that the health law's new "navigators" -- federally-paid groups that help people enroll in coverage -- do not represent a significant risk and that Medicare has used such guides for years without problems or controversy.
The announcement was unlikely to appease the law's opponents, however -- among them, Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator, John Doak, who has already put navigator groups on notice.
On the same day that officials at Little Dixie Community Action Agency in Hugo, Okla., won a $580,000 federal grant to help consumers sign up for coverage under the federal health law, Doak issued a warning. If the consumer guides perform any of the duties of state-licensed insurance agents, he said, "we will put a stop to it." He also called the $1.6 million award to hire and train the guides in Oklahoma -- part of $67 million nationwide -- "a waste" because it would duplicate the work of better-trained agents.
At Least 17 States Limit Navigators
Oklahoma is among at least 17 Republican-controlled states that have taken steps to restrict the 105 groups that won the federal grants, including churches, colleges, social service agencies and Planned Parenthood. Some states such as Indiana are requiring navigators to pay as much as $175 for licensing that would include a state exam and a criminal background check.
Others, such as Missouri and Georgia, have passed laws limiting what navigators can say and do. Last week, the Florida Health Department announced that local public health offices, where uninsured people often go for services, cannot have navigators on the premises.
State officials say they’re concerned the navigators, who are required by the federal government to get 20 hours of online training and pass an exam, will know too little to be helpful. They also worry about their access to private information, such as Social Security numbers.
But the law’s proponents see the restrictions as simply the latest GOP effort to impede the rollout of the law known as Obamacare, and worry they will dampen enrollment.
“This is just the latest obstacle that opponents of the Affordable Care Act are using to try to slow down implementation,” said Christine Barber, senior policy analyst with Community Catalyst, a Boston-based nonprofit helping states with enrollment.
“It’s having a chilling effect already as some organization are nervous to help with enrollment because of all the obstacles placed in their path,” she said.
At least four groups have declined federal grants as a result of state restrictions while others are rethinking their roles. A West Virginia agency returned $365,000 after it was asked extensive questions about its hiring and personnel practices by the Republican West Virginia attorney general. “There were unforeseen circumstances,” said Pat Haberbosch, executive director of West Virginia Parent Training and Information, Inc.
Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati also declined its grant because the state barred groups from serving as navigators that negotiate with health plans. And Texas-based Cardon Outreach is turning back $800,000 to hire guides in Florida, Oklahoma, Utah and Pennsylvania because of state scrutiny, according to an Associated Press report.
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer advocacy group that supports the law, called the efforts a “conspiracy” designed “to keep down the numbers of people who get enrolled.”
Why Navigators Matter
Navigators are considered crucial to the success of Obamacare because they are supposed to help consumers sort through a maze of insurance options and figure out whether they’re eligible for federal subsidies or perhaps free or low-cost coverage through Medicaid. Polls show many people know very little about these options.
Most of the states restricting their roles, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Indiana, have defaulted to the federal government to run their exchange websites and are doing no education or marketing about new coverage options.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/September/18/White-House-Pushes-Backs-Against-Fraud-Fears-By-Obamacare-Opponents.aspx
 
Harrekin

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ChesusRice said:
By Phil GalewitzKHN Staff Writer
Sep 18, 2013
The White House on Wednesday unveiled several steps to protect consumers from fraud in the new online health insurance marketplaces, a move that comes after 17 states hostile to the law acted to limit the spread of information about the program, and congressional Republicans raised concerns about the privacy of medical and financial records.
"We are sending a clear message that we will not tolerate anyone seeking to defraud consumers in the health insurance marketplace," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Senior administration officials acknowledged the potential for scams with any new government program, including the Obamacare marketplaces that open for enrollment Oct. 1 and are expected to help 7 million Americans get coverage next year.
But they stressed that the health law's new "navigators" -- federally-paid groups that help people enroll in coverage -- do not represent a significant risk and that Medicare has used such guides for years without problems or controversy.
The announcement was unlikely to appease the law's opponents, however -- among them, Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator, John Doak, who has already put navigator groups on notice.
On the same day that officials at Little Dixie Community Action Agency in Hugo, Okla., won a $580,000 federal grant to help consumers sign up for coverage under the federal health law, Doak issued a warning. If the consumer guides perform any of the duties of state-licensed insurance agents, he said, "we will put a stop to it." He also called the $1.6 million award to hire and train the guides in Oklahoma -- part of $67 million nationwide -- "a waste" because it would duplicate the work of better-trained agents.
At Least 17 States Limit Navigators
Oklahoma is among at least 17 Republican-controlled states that have taken steps to restrict the 105 groups that won the federal grants, including churches, colleges, social service agencies and Planned Parenthood. Some states such as Indiana are requiring navigators to pay as much as $175 for licensing that would include a state exam and a criminal background check.
Others, such as Missouri and Georgia, have passed laws limiting what navigators can say and do. Last week, the Florida Health Department announced that local public health offices, where uninsured people often go for services, cannot have navigators on the premises.
State officials say they’re concerned the navigators, who are required by the federal government to get 20 hours of online training and pass an exam, will know too little to be helpful. They also worry about their access to private information, such as Social Security numbers.
But the law’s proponents see the restrictions as simply the latest GOP effort to impede the rollout of the law known as Obamacare, and worry they will dampen enrollment.
“This is just the latest obstacle that opponents of the Affordable Care Act are using to try to slow down implementation,” said Christine Barber, senior policy analyst with Community Catalyst, a Boston-based nonprofit helping states with enrollment.
“It’s having a chilling effect already as some organization are nervous to help with enrollment because of all the obstacles placed in their path,” she said.
At least four groups have declined federal grants as a result of state restrictions while others are rethinking their roles. A West Virginia agency returned $365,000 after it was asked extensive questions about its hiring and personnel practices by the Republican West Virginia attorney general. “There were unforeseen circumstances,” said Pat Haberbosch, executive director of West Virginia Parent Training and Information, Inc.
Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati also declined its grant because the state barred groups from serving as navigators that negotiate with health plans. And Texas-based Cardon Outreach is turning back $800,000 to hire guides in Florida, Oklahoma, Utah and Pennsylvania because of state scrutiny, according to an Associated Press report.
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer advocacy group that supports the law, called the efforts a “conspiracy” designed “to keep down the numbers of people who get enrolled.”
Why Navigators Matter
Navigators are considered crucial to the success of Obamacare because they are supposed to help consumers sort through a maze of insurance options and figure out whether they’re eligible for federal subsidies or perhaps free or low-cost coverage through Medicaid. Polls show many people know very little about these options.
Most of the states restricting their roles, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Indiana, have defaulted to the federal government to run their exchange websites and are doing no education or marketing about new coverage options.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/September/18/White-House-Pushes-Backs-Against-Fraud-Fears-By-Obamacare-Opponents.aspx
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You'd get more than 20 hours training working in the fries department for Burger King...
 
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