Obamacare exchange navigators expected to earn $20- $48 an hour

[antigop]

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/health-care-inc/2013/07/obamacare-exchange-navigators-expected.html

Federal officials are recommending wages of between $20 and $48 per hour for the people who help the public navigate new health exchanges now taking shape across the country as part of Obamacare.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offered new guidance for what these navigators (called in-person assistors in Washington state) should be paid. These will be the people charged with helping the uninsured and those newly covered by Medicaid navigate the state’s online marketplace for health insurance.

Under CMS recommendations, only senior level executives would be earning the high-end, $48-per-hour paycheck; caseworkers would be paid $20 an hour and project leads would earn $29 an hour.

[lamp_shade]

1. Sounds reasonble to me.

[tridim]

2. More Obamacare win!

Although neo-DU still claims that Obama has only created minimum wage McJobs because he hates the middle class.

[Harmony Blue]

4. Majority of part time workers are now capped at 25 hours per week because of ACA

Save your champagne celebrations for those that care.

[tridim]

7. Got a link for that bit of misinformation?

Thanks.

[joeglow3]

8. Can you link to proof the sky is blue?

Everyone knows insurance now has to be provided to all employees working 30 hours and there is discussion to dropping it to 25. Everyone also knows MANY businesses are cutting people's hours to fall below this threshold.

If you are unaware of these simple fundamentals of the law, you should spend a little time researching it before commenting on a thread about it.

[tridim]

9. Sure, it's easy to post references if what you state is true.

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/

[Jim Lane]

10. I don't know if it's yet a majority, but it's a legitimate concern.

The employer mandate hasn't kicked in, so all we have are intimations of plans and what might happen. Some of these businesses may make inaccurate announcements because they have an agenda of making Obamacare look bad. Still, we do have at least their public statements. "Since the election, several large employers – ranging from restaurants and fast-food establishments to colleges that rely on part-time instructors – with lots of part-time employees have announced plans to limit their employees to 25 hours per week in response to Obamacare." (from "Why Obamacare Incentivizes Part-Time Jobs")

That Forbes) article also explains the underlying calculation. To me the math seems correct, that the ACA's employer mandate, applicable to full-time employees, would give businesses a reason to prefer part-time workers whose hours fell below the Obamacare threshold.

[Just Saying]

3. So Obamacare is also creating good middeclass jobs?

Awesome!

[leftstreet]

5. We should ALL be making at least $20 an hour n/t

[antigop]

6. I agree. Even adjunct professors don't make anywhere near that.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-do-you-ntt-faculty-pay-your-rent/39146