Posted on 11/29/2013 4:49:42 PM PST by kristinn
One group of navigators planned to sign up 5,800 people by March. So far: zero.
Even when the Obama administration was under the impression that the launch of the Affordable Care Act was going to work splendidly, with a first-rate website, the plan still called for "navigators" to help people sign up. Now, with the ACA website Healthcare.gov hobbled, and even many of the president's supporters grumbling that the law may need a radical rethinking, the work of the tens of thousands of these helpers is more vital than ever.
How's it going? Not well, to judge from a visit with navigators in North Carolina, one of 34 states that decided not to open their own health-insurance exchanges.
Durham is a relatively low-income city—nearly 19% of the residents are below the poverty level—that is 41% African-American and 14% Hispanic. It is the type of place that the White House expects to benefit most from ObamaCare. Yet the navigators I spoke with there earlier this month say interest has been sparse. Organizations like the Alcohol and Drug Council of North Carolina and the Lincoln Community Health Center that received federal funds to hire navigators are contemplating how to reach out to potential enrollees, given that waiting for phone calls or walk-ins is not proving fruitful.
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News stories have reported on the HHS's admission that it doesn't vet navigators' backgrounds. But the navigators for the Alcohol and Drug Council seem a cut above. Mr. Myint, the project manager, says that nine of the 13 navigators he hired have masters degrees—an indictment of the miserable jobs market, yes, but good for ObamaCare guidance. His group received about $300,000 from HSS, and the navigator jobs pay $20 an hour.
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What about weekends and holidays?
Do they work only 8 hours a day? 1 hour lunch plus breaks?
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Even the low information voters are wary of the O-Care scam.
I have an idea. Let’s call it operation Alinsky-havoc (or Alinskohavoc — better!). Thousands of conservatives sign up for the “hardworking” navigator jobs, and once inside the belly of the beast spread confusion and havoc around! The icing on the cake is that they can at the same time redistribute the stolen loot back to their own rightful pockets as well.
LOL. Do you really think that's necessary?
The Navigators will be spending more time working on Democrats Campaigns than healthcare
I have thought along those lines, but there are big roadblocks.
1) Conservatives would rarely be hired (I imagine that in most places the ex-ACORN types that run the programs check out the applicants’ politics and match ethnicity to the intended clientele).
2) Conservatives generally could not bare being paid to sit around doing nothing. Democrats see this as “work”. Conservatives see it as theft.
On point 2, the article did not divulge the fate of the “navigators” while the website is defunct. Since they cannot sign anyone up, have they been “laid off”? As befits a socialist exercise, there seems to be no incentive to be productive. Wonder how long the taxpayers/borrowers will be forced to keep paying them for nothing.
We don’t need to do anything to screw up the Obamacare roll-out. It’s being thoroughly screwed up by true masters of the craft.
Far better to expend that energy trying to get the Republican party not to screw up.
The Mark O the Beast Care. Who wants to sign away 1/3 of their income, receive little in benefits with such a high deductible a year and give them access to your bank accounts and possibly chip you and track your every movement. No one trusts the most transparent government in history with his track record.
Hummm. I kind of thought that was what MediCare was about. You pay into it your entire career, and when you get to be 65, you get coverage for a manageable premium. But it seems that the people who don't have health insurance are not the 'older' people but the younger people who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough for those 'sub-par' plans from 'ripoff' insurance companies.
The solution for that seems to be to outlaw low cost 'sub-par' policies and make sure no one can afford any policy.
Louis Carrol would need to eat a lot more magic mushrooms to come up with this scenario.
@#$#^^!~!!!!!!!
I’m going off to be a navigator, folks... and I’m going to have FUN with it!
“One group of navigators planned to sign up 5,800 people by March. So far: zero.”
And wtf did that cost?
Navigators are Democrat campaign workers, nothing more.
navigator jobs pay $20 an hour.
Pretty nice wage using taxpayers money for this non skill job. Me thinks.
“The Affordable Care Act “makes a lot of sense,” Mr. Correa says. “It’s kind of like the youth is taking care of the elderly. Young people are paying more but using the system less, and older people are paying less but using the system more.”
Well, how bout that for a novel idea? Not!
I am probably much older than the average Freeper, but over fifty years ago we were doing this without tax incentives, any form of government aid, and certainly without the need for “navigators.” In my family our parents had their own home due to the fact that their children were properly raised and were able to buy their first home. They had rented throughout those earlier years. When they became elderly and in need of nursing care, one or more of us provided it. No thanks Mr. public, we didn’t need or want your “help.”
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