Obamacare 'Navigators' Will Get $58 For Every Individual They Sign Up

[mad cow]

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed, the Obama Administration envisioned that all states would implement the program as outlined in the law. However, unlike any federal program in recent history, 27 states have decided not to create a Health Insurance Exchange and instead let the federal government implement it at a cost in excess of $8 billion. This results in a “top down” payment system versus the “bottom up” approach the framers of the legislation expected.

What this means is that some states will have federal marketplaces, and others will have their own locally developed marketplaces for employers and patients. And because understanding the workings of this system and trying to identify and purchase a health insurance product is so complicated, the government is paying “navigators” to guide the uninsured through the maze being constructed to make health insurance more accessible. In California, for example, $673 million in federal money will be utilized to deploy 21,000 navigators to sign up people for the exchange. Reports indicate that each navigator will receive $58 for every person signed up.

More at link:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/physici...ill-get-58-for-every-individual-they-sign-up/

A smooth talking navigator could make some real coin here.Any takers?

 

[AlexAmore]

I would just drag a bunch of bums to the library and sign em up. But seriously, it would be hard to ask anyone not completely poor to pay the kind of money ACA is asking.

 

[tod evans]

And this is how "employment" numbers are skewed...

 

[mad cow]

I would just drag a bunch of bums to the library and sign em up. But seriously, it would be hard to ask anyone not completely poor to pay the kind of money ACA is asking.

Four bums a day,five days a week,50 weeks a year = damn near 60K.
I wonder what sort of healthcare insurance they are offering?
Retirement benefits?

 

[devil21]

So I'll probably have to deal with Obamacare navigators banging on my door at 9am on a saturday morning? As if the bible thumpers weren't already enough.

 

[angelatc]

It used to be illegal to sell insurance without a license.

 

[oyarde]

It used to be illegal to sell insurance without a license.

I guess that was before the gubmint had all the insurance and pd your money for commisions .

 

[amy31416]

It used to be illegal to sell insurance without a license.

They're not selling it, it sells itself!*





*Don't forget that the IRS is now heavily armed.

 

[devil21]

They're not selling it, it sells itself*

*Don't forget that the IRS is now heavily armed.

People complained about census workers....just wait till these navigators are canvassing neighborhoods.

 

[oyarde]

People complained about census workers....just wait till these navigators are canvassing neighborhoods.

LOL , YEP

 

[jbauer]

It used to be illegal to sell insurance without a license.

No kidding!!!

 

[jbauer]

No license to worry about. No tracking. No reason to tell the truth. You're going to see mega fraud with obamacare just like every other give me program

 

[angelatc]

No kidding!!!

Yeah, they just devalued the licenses of the professionals that actually went to insurance school to learn the business. I'd like to see some GOP governor stand up to them on this.