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Be a Navigator! 30 hrs training



Navigators will receive about 30 hours of online training—about the same amount required for a federal census worker.

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More than 100 groups will split $67 million to help people "navigate" the new Obamacare health insurance exchanges — more money than the administration initially said would be available but short of what advocates say will be needed to help people sign up, especially in states where the governors are hostile.

The grants announced Thursday will go to 105 organizations, including community groups, health care providers, business groups and a handful of Planned Parenthood affiliates. The program, which got an extra $13 million from the health law prevention fund, is for those states that refused to set up their own health insurance exchanges, and the federal government is stepping in.

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the Navigator thing is a real hoot:



Navigators assist the uninsured in determining what type of coverage they qualify for and often have access to personal information, such as Social Security numbers, tax returns, and household income. However, the training and requirements for navigators eligible to receive funding under this program is very limited and could potentially put consumers at risk of fraud and identity theft.

The online training should be a real gas considering it will have to be tailored to the average of those taking the course. How much can you cover in 30 hours when you talk really, really slow and use short words?
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I sure hope the navigators get a background check!

Sounds like you are going to navigator school.
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"Navigator" update:



According to President Obama, implementation of ObamaCare, his signature chunk of legislation, is rolling out exactly as he envisioned.

If so, he needs eyeglasses to go along with his Nicorette.

With questionable legal authority, the Obama administration has already had to postpone two major aspects of the complex legislation, despite three full years of preparation time.

Also, we now know healthcare will not be cheaper; premiums have already gone up.

You probably won't get to keep your existing plan if you like it. Big business, Congress and White House folks got special delays and waivers. But us regular people still must follow every letter.

And now we're learning of an immense barrel of worms in the enrollment process that is terrifying privacy and civil liberties advocates and many states' attorneys general. All this when, according to Gallup, a growing majority of Americans disapprove of the law, 52% last month, up from 46% when Obama was reelected.

The unspoken goal of ObamaCare implementation is, of course, to sign up as many millions of Americans as quickly as possible to get the new federal money flowing out as soon as possible, theoretically creating a hardcore cadre of entitlement-addicted citizens opposed to the law's repeal, reform or defunding.

The administration is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars encouraging people to enroll to get your taxpayer dollars, even if they were happy with the health plan they had. This includes having public school teachers take valuable class time to train pupils to sell ObamaCare to parents and family. Never mind English and math.

Have you heard of "navigators"? No, not Ferdinand Magellan or Vasco de Gama. These new battalions of government employees are being hired to help applicants enroll quicker for this Rube Goldberg-monstrosity called ObamaCare. Isn't that thoughtful?

These navigators will have absolutely zero background in insurance. But they'll be full of advice on what's best for you. And given Obama's record of truthfulness, who wouldn't trust a total government stranger implementing Obama's health plan?

In theory, these public employees will provide unbiased information to potential applicants about the best plans for them. To do this, navigators will assemble all the necessary personal information for each applicant from the vast new federal government data center.

It too is late and will have dubious standards about who can access all this data.

That's the data center authorized to plug into more than a half dozen major federal bureaucracies, including the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Social Security and -- wait for it! -- the Internal Revenue Service. The service that was using names to politically penalize conservative groups that Obama says he was totally clueless about.