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State Stiffs Agents Who Helped Sign-Ups for Covered California
AllGov.com ^ | December 2, 2014 | by Ken Broder

Posted on 12/02/2014 3:30:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

he state uses an army of certified agents to guide around 40% of the people who enroll in Covered California, the state’s subsidized health-care system. And like any army, this one would like to get paid.

That hasn’t been happening.

The Los Angeles Times reported last week that many of the 12,600 insurance agents haven’t been paid for months. Around 2,200 agents are owed around $2 million for shepherding Med-Cal patients through the system and the state doesn’t intend to pay them before January.

These are probably the wrong people to piss off at the beginning of Covered California’s second annual enrollment, coming on the heels of a somewhat tarnished launch last year.

Agents signed up four times as many people as the 6,000 certified enrollment counselors hired and trained by the state.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; california; coveredcalif; exchanges; grubercare; navigators; obamacare; rinocare; socialism

1 posted on 12/02/2014 3:30:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I know one of these guys. I will have to ask him if he has been getting paid.


2 posted on 12/02/2014 3:32:41 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

If he says no, remember to laugh at him.


3 posted on 12/02/2014 3:34:08 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obamacare navigator parasites are working to destroy America, so I’m okay with them getting what they so richly deserve - nothing.


4 posted on 12/02/2014 3:36:47 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

This is what happens when you work for criminals.


5 posted on 12/02/2014 3:40:51 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How racist! That sign should be in Spanish.


6 posted on 12/02/2014 3:45:08 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If they were paid, they’d be considered privileged.


7 posted on 12/02/2014 3:45:43 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Pollster1

Obama’s SEIU navigators are getting paid. These are independent licenced California insurance agents. That’s what is so pathetic about the article.


8 posted on 12/02/2014 3:53:10 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Parley Baer

In Illinois several years ago, many places, including gas stations, refused to take the state’s credit card because they weren’t getting paid by the state. I wonder if California is about to go down the same path?


9 posted on 12/02/2014 3:53:48 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Well, if the State demands taxes and in return does not live up to it’s commitments, then it’s time to take the State away from the government. It’s as simple as that.


10 posted on 12/02/2014 4:16:10 PM PST by realcleanguy
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