Texas Democrats held a news conference on January 15th decrying proposed rules requiring additional training for Obamacare “navigators”. According to the Dallas Morning News, supplementary rules proposed by the Texas Department of Insurance “would be a huge burden” on the small community organizations trying to serve the public, said Fort Worth-area Representative Marc Veasey.
Meanwhile the Air Force Times reports offices handling Tricare claims and billing questions in the United States are closing April 1st.
“The 189 Tricare Service Centers offer walk-in customers face-to-face assistance with claims paperwork, enrollment changes and other administrative tasks. Fifty percent of the visits to the centers are for in- and out-processing and requests to change primary care providers, and the rest involve billing-related questions, officials said.”
How much taxpayer money was given to local “navigator” organizations in Texas?
“The federal government gave local organizations in Texas almost $11 million to hire guides who help consumers through the complex system.”
I’ve an idea; how about closing down the navigator offices in Texas and keeping the Tricare service centers across the country open? After all, the Tricare technology is better:
“The change also is driven “by the fact that technology has gotten so much better,”
And DEERS can actually track the number of hits & handle other services:
“..enroll in Tricare programs or change enrollment information, check claims status, view your explanations of benefits, make payments and request new enrollment cards, among other services.”
While we’re at it, how about reinstating the $6 billion in COLA adjustment cuts for retired & disabled military members by eliminating the $7.4 billion in Earned Income Tax Credits and Additional Child Tax Credit going to illegal aliens?
And quit conducting social engineering paycheck experiments on the military.
If you want to conduct social experiments to gauge the outcomes of slashing paychecks and retirement benefits , go experiment on the bureaucrats working for the Energy Prevention Agency, Eric Holders’ Department of Social Justice, the Department of No Education and the Chamber of Amnesty -Open Borders-Commerce FIRST.
Oh, but the Federal employees in those departments are UNION members, aren’t they?
Sheila Jackson-Lee, Marc Veasey, Al Green, Gene Green, Joaquin Castro should be ashamed of themselves. Supporting the Obamacare navigator organizations and taxpayer money for illegals over the US military is disgraceful.
A longtime member of Team Engstrand (www.engstrandforcongress.com) exposed the fraud of these navigators
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/11/22/wow-obamacare-navigators-caught-tape-encouraging-lying-applications
Lawrence Billy Jones III happens to be a young black conservative who went undercover to expose this fraud, since then he no longer has his job that helped pay for some of his college expenses. Through the help of COLONEL Jim. Engstrand and myself (volunteer team campaign manager) Lawrence has been able earn funds to help keep him in school by providing his insight of this fraud through speaking engagements. Additionally, with other undercover work he found a tie into the Obamacare Navigators and the organization trying to turn Texas blue. On a personal note as a member of Tricare so much for if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor more and more of these providers are opting out and going cash only including mine.
The above is just another reason why I support COLONEL Jim Engstrand for congress not to mention that over the past year and half he has been helping with the rebuilding efforts of our Christian organization as a volunteer.
Sheila Jackson Lee has no shame.