{"id":18601,"date":"2013-08-15T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T22:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2013-08-15T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T22:25:46","slug":"obamacare-navigators-could-make-20-48-an-hour-registering-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18601\/obamacare-navigators-could-make-20-48-an-hour-registering-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Navigators Could Make $20-48 an Hour Registering Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Obama administration announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/08\/hhs-obamacare-navigators-95575.html?hp=r5\" target=\"_blank\">$67 million in grants to 105 groups<\/a> nationwide who will assist people trying to find health insurance on an ObamaCare exchange, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The groups are non-insurance organizations that will in turn employ so-called \u201cnavigators\u201d to help insurance seekers fill out an ObamaCare application, obtain insurance, and yes, even register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the groups receiving grants include Planned Parenthood affiliates and various community organizers and activists. Care to speculate which political party they\u2019ll steer registrants to?<\/p>\n<p>The likely pay isn\u2019t bad either.<\/p>\n<p>In a proposed regulation issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid two weeks ago, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tens-of-thousands-obamacare-navigators-to-be-hired\/article\/2526167\" target=\"_blank\">suggested that the groups employing navigators pay between $20 and $48 an hour<\/a>. (Navigators are prohibited by law from being paid by insurance companies, so compensation is expected to come from grant recipients.)<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got to hand it to liberals. Not only do they manage to find a way to pay themselves to grow an entitlement, they get to grow their political support too.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s that line about democracy lasting only until the people discover they can vote themselves the treasury\u2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Obama administration announced $67 million in grants to 105 groups nationwide who will assist people trying to find health insurance on an ObamaCare exchange, according to Politico. The groups are non-insurance organizations that will in turn employ so-called \u201cnavigators\u201d to help insurance seekers fill out an ObamaCare application, obtain insurance, and yes, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4228,3179,3007,3308,1829,2963,4227,35],"class_list":["post-18601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-community-organizer","tag-crony","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-law","tag-navigator","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18605,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions\/18605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}