Republicans Put The Screws To Obamacare ‘Navigators’

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In a letter dated Aug, 29, 2013, on committee letterhead, 15 Republicans demand documents and responses to questions about Navigator organizations, their workers, their processes of monitoring and supervising employees, their efforts to “safeguard an individual’s personal and medicinal information,” whether or not they’ve communicated with a health insurer or provider, and “all documentation and communications related to your Navigator grant.”

The letter, obtained by TPM, gives the Navigators a Sept. 13 deadline to submit the answers and documents. In addition to Upton, the letter is signed by oversight subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and health subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA), among others. (See the rest of the signatories below.)

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), the ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Committee, fired back Friday afternoon in a strongly worded letter to Upton, accusing him of abusing his authority to advance the GOP’s “fishing expeditions” against Obamacare.

“There is no legitimate predicate for these letters and no evidence of any malfeasance from any of the organizations,” he wrote. “It is an abuse of your oversight authority to launch groundless investigations into civic organizations that are trying to make health reform a success. … I urge you to reconsider these misguided investigations.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human services called the House GOP investigation “a blatant and shameful attempt to intimidate groups who will be working to inform Americans about their new health insurance options and help them enroll in coverage, just like Medicare counselors have been doing for years.”

The Letter and More at the Link~

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/08/republicans-obamacare-navigators.php

They are doing everything in their power to destroy the success of the Affordable Care Act. They are cold heartless b**tards!

[giftedgirl77]

1. Ugh, what a bunch of despicable bastards.

There is absolutely no level of lows for these slugs. It is disgusting.

[sheshe2]

2. Yes giftedgirl..

The slugs.

[Cha]

8. And, NO

fooking clue how to crawl out of their abysmal, gigantic rut.



she

[sheshe2]

9. Puuuurfect!

I keep hearing echos echos echos.
Obamacare repeal repeal repeal........................................................................................

They are where they belong, in their "abysmal, gigantic rut." And hot damn they own it to!

They built that Cha!

[Cha]

10. Lol @ echos echos, echos...

It's deep, she.. pity we're not discussing their minds. rofl.

They did build that! she

[Cha]

3. thank goodness for Henry Waxman and the

spokesperson from Dept of Health and Human Services who are calling the gopricks on their blatant Bullshit.

Let's hope this goes down in the junk pile of history like the gops 40 Attemps to repeal OBAMACARE!



pics of rally in Support of ACA outside US Supreme Court House in D.C..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladawnaspics/7029981403/

Mahalo, she~

[sheshe2]

5. Secretary Sebelius looks completely disgusted with the GOP.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/19/with-obamacare-approaching-gop-running-out-of-options-to-fight-it/

Thanks Cha.

[Cha]

7. That she does.. Worn and weary but

will have a good night's sleep and engergized to fight another day, she!

Kathleen Sebelius

[Fawke Em]

4. The expansion of the HIPAA Privacy Rule will stop them dead

in their tracks.

These Republicans don't have privilege to need to know this information, so they can STFU.

[sheshe2]

6. Thanks Fawke Em

This over reach makes the look like the utter fools they are.