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Sarasota News Leader October 25, 2013 to insurance companies has been scrambled. That means even those who think they have purchased insurance through the site may experience problems when the plans actually come online Jan. 1. The Onion, as it often does, summed it up well this week with a graphic showing "people in HealthCare.gov stock photos now visibly panicking." I myself set up an account weeks ago, but have since been unable to explore specific plans due to online glitches. Page 24 Protection and Affordable Care Act means for them. Litwiler works with Sarasota's Comprehensive Care Center, a nonprofit that provides medical, dental and case management services for HIV-positive residents in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties. The organization has a "working relationship" with the Health Planning Council of Southwest Florida, which is helping implement a $4.2 million federal grant given to the University of South Florida, and in turn working with organizations such as the Comprehensive Care Center, to identify and assist those who need help signing up for health insurance. "The website's still not working well," acknowledges Becky Litwiler, recently certified as a Sarasota-area ObamaCare navigator. But despite setbacks, she's continuing to hand According to Litwiler, traffic so far has been out paper applications and sitting down with "slow," but she thinks that's mainly because clients to explain exactly what the Patient media coverage has focused on how the President Barack Obama reviews notes before a speech. Photo by Pete Souza, via Flickr