The government has awarded $67 million to organizations that will serve as Navigators, or those who help people sign up for insurance under the new health care law.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acted even as insurance agents ramped up their efforts, working through Republican members of Congress, to create high barriers for non-agents to counsel people on how to access health exchanges and benefit from other components of the healthcare law.
The grants made today were to 105 organizations in states that are letting the federal government run their online insurance marketplaces because the leadership in those states are doing everything they can to thwart implementation of the program.
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