Saturday, August 10, 2013

Obamacare Navigators

I've very recently read there will be "navigators" to begin signing people up for Obamacare beginning October 1st.  What's a navigator you ask?  They are people and organizations trained by the government to facilitate signups for the Obamacare insurance exchanges.

Here is what I've recently learned:  1) Health and Human Services does not require the navigators to undergo  minimum eligibility criteria and background checks.  2) The Administration's training program does not require navigators to have any kind of anti-fraud training.  3)  Many states do not have plans for investigating unscrupulous navigators or scam artists that may prey on vulnerable and unsuspecting people.

Not unlike most government programs Obamacare is fraught with fraud potential of unimaginable proportions.  Incredulous as it may be, Planned Parenthood has applied for navigator status to sign up consumers.  I foresee scam artists signed up as navigators, or posing as navigators, to get access to applicants' Social Security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information.

Senator Baucus, one of the architects of Obamacare, recently become aware of the errs of his way and said Obamacare is a "train wreck" about to happen.  There must be something systemically wrong with Obamacare when Obama himself grants waivers to various companies, unions, and political entities, including even our very own Congress members and aides.

Now is the time to kill Obamacare before it becomes institutionalized as a permanent government program.  As Ronald Reagan appropriately said (paraphrased):  "The closest thing to eternity on earth is a government program."


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