Posted on 10/29/2013 3:21:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Minnesota's new online health insurance marketplace, MNsure has been open for four weeks.
That's what brought employees of Southside Community Health Services to Karina's Beauty Salon in the heart of the city's Latino community. The organization has received part of a $4 million federal grant to help explain what MNsure is.
With that mind, a beauty salon in was the perfect place to start, said Clarence Jones, the outreach director.
But when Jones and several colleagues visited the salon, they had no takers, even though the state's Latinos are three-times as likely as white residents to lack health insurance.
Southside community worker, Miguel Rivera, who is MNsure-certified to provide help as a so-called "navigator" said that confusion about the health care law championed by the president is common among the people he sees.
"They're totally confused," he said. "The client has to get into it and navigate the system, but people can't do it."
As a MNsure navigator, Rivera can help if clients can't manage alone. But when the five-hour clinic ended, he hadn't signed up anyone for a plan on MNsure.
Benson said the “clipper clinic” at Karina's is only the first step in a continuing conversation about MNsure.
(Excerpt) Read more at kaiserhealthnews.org ...
AKA tax payer money going to Obama care
Consumers, regardless of race, are rational people when it comes to spending money. Why would they fork over lots of money now, when they can simply wait until they are sick, then sign up for the insurance at the exact same price as when they were healthy? Why wouldn’t anyone pay the much, much cheaper penalty, and wait to get sick before they purchase health insurance?
It really is that simple. Just wait until this baby is fully implemented...rates are going to sky rocket in 2015 and beyond...
Its called Hispathy.
$4 million to help explain what it is?
lol
These grants are all crimes as far as I am concerned
Tax money given to leftists again
These grants are given to “navigators” who are various community organizers (i.e., DIMocRAT commies) to waste. It is a crime to waste taxpayer’s money like this. All these criminals should go to prison: those who give the money and those who accept it.
BUMP
Maybe they believe they’re not eligible since 80% of Minnesota’s Hispanics are illegal.
Good point, but I think it’s more like 90%.
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