http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/health-insurance-navigators-obamacare-uninsured-marketplace-exchange-state-regulation
To help consumers and small businesses make sense of their new health insurance options, the Affordable Care Act created outreach personnel, or "navigators," tasked with distributing information about coverage and walking people through the application process.On January 23, Texas passed a set of measures aimed at restricting these navigators because of lawmakers' concerns about patient privacy. That same day, a federal judge in Missouri temporarily blocked enforcement of similar restrictions, ruling that they created too large an obstacle to enrollment.This tug of war is about a seemingly straightforward program: The navigators, which are required by law to be both unbiased and free, are meant to help uninsured Americans enroll in either Medicaid or private insurance plans.Depending on whether a state has opted to use it's own insurance marketplace, navigators get funding through state or federal grants. For example, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, in Iowa, received a $214,427 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to employ navigators,which will give in-person assistance by preparing applications and helping consumers determine which plans they qualify for, in 61 of 99 Iowa counties.
this is a sure sign that ACA is doing as well as touted, they are coming up with new crap to deny you even information on the plan isn't that really extreme bad enough to lie and tell you it's bad for you and try to get you to run from it. but to deny you true information instead of their colluded misinformation, their really ought to be a law.
But Republican lawmakers have cried afoul, arguing that navigators could steal private information like Social Security numbers and medical records. In an August letter to Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the HHS, the attorneys general of 13 states said they were concerned that HHS had "failed to adequately protect the privacy" of consumers because it does "not even require uniform criminal background or fingerprint checks before hiring personnel." Texas Senator John Cornyn, for example, praised his state's regulations, saying on his Facebook, "Obamacare presents enough problems for Texans without the risk of a convicted felon handling their personal information."
the part of the country that yahoo's everytime the republicans obstruct should really about now seeing the horse they thought they had in this race was just a nag on the way to the glue factory, they are being sold a bill of goods that have been marinated in elephant dung
note how they again are telling you how something is when their has been no proof. if they continue this paranoid march to record lows and start at least stop the lying, if not they would do good to secede, and become the foreign states that they are subject to all tax and tariffs and get your own damn disaster help.
