TALKING POINTS---A West Virginia nonprofit has turned down a federal grant it received to help residents navigate new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act after it received an inquiry from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey about how it would protect consumer information. Clarksburg-based West Virginia Parent Training Inc. did not respond to a letter it received from Morrisey directing it to answer 26 questions about the group's personnel and hiring practices, including employee background checks and employee monitoring programs, the Sunday Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/17M1QVe) reported. (Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...
YOUR TURN--Contact your state AG---ask him/her to issue a letter of inquiry to groups receiving federal "Navigator" grants. The inquiry should center on questions WRT how the group intends to protect consumer data.
In particular, the questionnaire should ask if the tax-funded "Navigator" program intends to transfer personal/ financial/medical data of the insured to the local/county/national Democrat Party, relevant Unions, banks, investment companies, drug companies, insurance companies. Trial Lawyers' associations and whether "Navigators" have sub rosa contracts with these, and other groups, plan to profit, to provide significant info to enrich databases for pecuniary purposes.
The AG also needs to confirm (1) whether the "navigator" was ever convicted of a felony....... and....(2) whether the "navigator" can be bonded.
Most importantly demand that your AG enforce the requirement that "Navigators" must have a state insurance license (consists of a comprehensive test on all aspects of insurance and compels a background check).
This whole navigator concept is BEE ESS of the first order. We have in every state what are called Insurance Agents, who are already licensed by the state in which they operate. Who better to guide insurance purchases? Navigators shouldn’t be operating at all since the idea is to “operate” outside the licensing boards and act within an agenda known only to those hiring the navigators, IMHO.
Pretty much the exact opposite to the rules you have suggested to protect “we the People”.
This whole navigator concept is BEE ESS of the first order. We have in every state what are called Insurance Agents, who are already licensed by the state in which they operate. Who better to guide insurance purchases? Navigators shouldn’t be operating at all since the idea is to “operate” outside the licensing boards and act within an agenda known only to those hiring the navigators, IMHO.
Pretty much the exact opposite to the rules you have suggested to protect “we the People”.