HealthCare Notes

1/15/14

PERRspectives: Missouri Blocks Navigators for Obamacare, but Not Medicare

PERRspectives: Missouri Blocks Navigators for Obamacare, but Not Medicare
"The first numbers on the body count from the Republican sabotage of the Affordable Care Actare just now coming in. Last week, an analysis from Harvard's Theda Skocpol revealed that states that both set up their own health care exchanges and embraced the ACA's expansion of Medicaid are racing towards their enrollment goals, while the reddest of red states which refused to do either are barely moving the needle for their uninsured populations. Now, a George Washington University study shows that states that also passed laws limiting the ability of health care "navigators" to advise customers have severely compromised their residents' ability to gain access to health care."