Obama Administration Slashes Obamacare 'Navigator' Training Requirements

Weekly Standard ^ | 8//7/13 | MICHAEL WARREN

[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."

[Nachum]

Full title: Obama Administration Slashes Obamacare 'Navigator' Training Requirements GOP congresswoman: "Appears irresponsible."

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[Clock King]

DMV 3.0...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Barry’s whole “navigator” fiasco is nothing but another one of his big money give-a-ways to the Obamanoid freeloader crowd.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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

[nascarnation]

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.

[molson209]

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

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[NonValueAdded]

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.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Looks like the staff will be the children of Obama...
Laughable.

[muir_redwoods]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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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[FreeAtlanta]

I wish the people responsible for forcing Obeastcare on us would get slashed.

[COBOL2Java]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Nancy was right — we had to pass it to learn what in it wouldn’t be enforced.

[traditional1]

Lowering intelligence standards is the ONLY way to hire “Holder’s People” for this Community Organizer sham.

[Grams A]

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!

[GeronL]

Not a surprise

You should tell this to Fox News, Washington Times, Limbaugh and the others

[Artie]

“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.”

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.

[GeronL]

Is anyone really surprised if they refuse to hire registered Republicans??