PRESSING ON
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius addresses a group. Photo by United States
Mission Geneva, via Flickr
DESPITE HEALTHCARE.GOV PROBLEMS, AGENCIES FIGHT TO HELP
LOCALS ACCESS HEALTHCARE
By Cooper Levey-Baker
Associate Editor
Endless wait times and garbled back-end
data — such have been the main features of
HealthCare.gov so far for users in Florida.
That hasn't stopped local ObamaCare navigators and counselors from hitting the pavement
and touting the importance of signing up for
health insurance to those lacking access to
healthcare.
gov, the site set up by the Obama administration for users in states that declined to set
up their own health insurance marketplaces.
Florida is one such state; in addition to declining billions in federal aid, its Legislature has
so far declined to create a state insurance
exchange.
Since the end of the
People are starting to get a little
federal government
anxious to enroll, and they want to go
shutdown last week,
ahead and move forward with it.
the national news
media has focused
Linda Stone
CEO
relentlessly on the
Community Health Center of North Port
failures of HealthCare.
Not only have Florida
users experienced
difficulty logging in
and exploring plans,
but according to The
Wa s h i n g t o n P o s t ,
the data transmitted
from HealthCare.gov
