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Obama Administration Slashes Obamacare 'Navigator' Training Requirements
Weekly Standard ^
| 8//7/13
| MICHAEL WARREN
Posted on 08/07/2013 6:00:51 PM PDT by Nachum
The problems keep stacking up for the partial implementation of Obamacare on October 1. The Wall Street Journal reports this week that the Department of Health and Human Services has cut back on the number of training hours required for the Obamacare "navigators," federal workers who under the health care law are tasked with helping consumers purchase insurance through the state exchanges. Here's the Journal:
Grants to hire and train the workers aren't expected to be released for another two weeks for the 34 states where the federal government is running all or part of the marketplaces, which will offer insurance to those who don't get it on the job or from Medicare or Medicaid. That leaves just 32 business days to hire and train thousands of helpers in these states.
"It's definitely a tight timeline, and there's a lot to do before Oct. 1," said Jen Bersdale, executive director of Missouri Healthcare for All, a nonprofit advocacy group helping coordinate outreach activities in the state. "I imagine some people will be working overtime to do it."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; administration; navigator; obama; obamacare
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Full title: Obama Administration Slashes Obamacare 'Navigator' Training Requirements GOP congresswoman: "Appears irresponsible."
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:00:51 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:01:22 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:02:37 PM PDT
by
Clock King
("A Republic! If you can keep it..." We failed, Mr. Franklin.)
To: Nachum
Barry’s whole “navigator” fiasco is nothing but another one of his big money give-a-ways to the Obamanoid freeloader crowd.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:03:04 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
To: Nachum
I just don't understand why this implementation and roll-out hasn't gone smoothly. I really can't understand why it has failed. I mean, it's the government for crying out loud!
pssst...jk
To: Clock King
You have to admit the Baraqqis don’t miss a trick.
Just like adding all the IRS agents, this is another “jobs program” for cronies across the nation.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:04:33 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: FlingWingFlyer
navigator’s will be working for the Democrats Legally , Obamacare has nothing to do with health care ,but everything to do with one party rule, DEMOCRAT PARTY
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:09:22 PM PDT
by
molson209
(Hillary Clinton)
To: molson209
I’ve got a feeling we’ll be paying Barry’s “navigators” to register more and more ‘RAT “voters”. The same “voters” over and over again.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:14:05 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Senator Foghorn says, You should never resist being raped, robbed, beat down or murdered.)
To: Nachum
It is a skill position and they probably just don’t have the right caliber of applicants. So naturally they dumb it down. Flashback to the census.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:18:46 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
To: Nachum
Looks like the staff will be the children of Obama...
Laughable.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:19:30 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Nachum
All of FreeRepublic should seek to become Obamacare Navigators. If congress wont kill this monster in the cradle, we should. Im certain that if poor navigation could doom the “unsinkable” Titanic, intentionally poor navigation could sink Obamacare.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:25:35 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: Nachum
If Obamacare is so bad, it's God-father has to keep taking a razor blade cutter to it, perhaps it's time to toss in the towel.
Never-mind. My mistake. It was time to toss in the towel on the day before it was voted into law, and the day before Justice Roberts committed character suicide to avoid having to strike it down.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:31:01 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain.)
To: Nachum
I wish the people responsible for forcing Obeastcare on us would get slashed.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:40:44 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(sue the DNC for the IRS abuse! Can RICO laws be used against the DNC?)
To: Nachum
A gracious hello. Here at the Obamacare "navigators," we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from fry cooks and community organizers to the scum of the earth. So, we realize that, every so often, you can't get a doctor, or for no apparent reason we lose your health care records, or perhaps your bypass surgery gets rescheduled to the next millenium. We don't care!
Watch this... [ she hits buttons maniacally ] We just lost Peoria's appointments!
You see, this health care system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated -- [ she hits buttons with her elbows ] even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? So, the next time you complain about your level of service, why don't you try using a steak knive and a used syringe? We don't care. We don't have to. We're ObamaCare.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:42:42 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: Nachum
Nancy was right — we had to pass it to learn what in it wouldn’t be enforced.
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posted on
08/07/2013 6:45:42 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Nachum
Lowering intelligence standards is the ONLY way to hire “Holder’s People” for this Community Organizer sham.
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posted on
08/07/2013 7:18:38 PM PDT
by
traditional1
(Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
To: muir_redwoods
All of FreeRepublic should seek to become Obamacare Navigators.”
One of my agitator friends did apply the first day the applications were available just to see what would happen. Someone called our local Voter Registration, a mutual friend who heads up that department just happened to take the call, and it was someone asking my friend’s party affiliation. Few days later she got a letter stating that there were no positions currently available but they would contact her in the event an opening occurred. Apparently no Republicans allowed!
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posted on
08/07/2013 8:21:48 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Grams A
Not a surprise
You should tell this to Fox News, Washington Times, Limbaugh and the others
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posted on
08/07/2013 8:23:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: NonValueAdded
“It is a skill position and they probably just dont have the right caliber of applicants. So naturally they dumb it down. Flashback to the census.”
This is the perfect opportunity for lil Miss Chelsea Clinton. A rancid, no nothing, entitled dem offspring swooping in (and cashing in) to save her moms legacy. She will be enshrined forever in the “anals” of psychotic democrat lore. She will grace the power halls of the DNC evoking long forgotten memories of Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neill.
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posted on
08/07/2013 8:27:12 PM PDT
by
Artie
(We are surrounded by MORONS)
To: Artie
Is anyone really surprised if they refuse to hire registered Republicans??
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posted on
08/07/2013 8:28:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
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