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Lead Florida Obamacare Navigator Anne Packham has retracted earlier claims that Floridians must provide their credit score to apply for health insurance, WKMG reports:
A day after telling Local 6 that anyone signing up for the Affordable Care Act had to provide their credit score, the lead navigator in Florida said she was wrong.
Anne Packham, one of many people licensed by the state to help people navigate the government’s website, said on Tuesday that the credit check was put in place so providers can make an educated decision about who to insure.
After receiving numerous emails about the story, Local 6 contacted Packham on Wednesday, and she said her statement was incorrect, adding that users do not need their credit scores to apply for the Affordable Care Act.
Local 6 is investigating how the person in charge of providing information about the Affordable Care Act could make such an error.
GrantedBail
The first piece of disinformation
disinformation:
there is so much disinformation
Ameilia
reply to post by GrantedBail
I'm glad you're trying to stop the misconceptions here, but really, disinformation? If the guy actually said it on the record, it wasn't disinformation at the time it was reported here. It was the most current information available at the time which was known to be true and to have a source.
So that's more like an error, and not even on an ATSers side, but on the side of the person who made the false statement. To me disinformation is spreading a rumor as truth, or providing "information" which the person KNOWS to be false, and spreads it anyway.
GrantedBail
Local 6 is investigating how the person in charge of providing information about the Affordable Care Act could make such an error.
alfa1
GrantedBail
The first piece of disinformation
disinformation:
there is so much disinformation
To me it doesnt sound like "disinformation".
Just sounds like Anne Packham incompetently made a mistake. Then corrected it.
In a follow up interview with WKMG on Wednesday, Packham attributed her gross misunderstanding of Obamacare application requirements to “human error” and refused to say specifically how she concocted such a detailed and blatantly false explanation:
Local 6 asked Packham, “People just want to know. You’ve been through training. You are educating people about the process. How does this happen?”
“It’s human error,” Packham said.
GrantedBail
reply to post by boncho
Bo,
There was an OP on the front page for two days and everyone accepted it as gospel.
Look, I am no ACA fan, but I have grown tired of the drama.
GrantedBail
reply to post by Ameilia
OK, I get that. But do you really think it was a mistake? Or was someone stirring the pot for a headline. I am not saying it was or it wasn't but come on....
GrantedBail
OK, I get that. But do you really think it was a mistake? Or was someone stirring the pot for a headline. I am not saying it was or it wasn't but come on....
boncho
I'd rather people just shut there mouths about it. It is like watching a bunch of kids whining and screaming cause they have to take a bath.
boncho
It's happening, get over it.
boncho
...no one has provided any solid explanation.
I wont believe anything until I see a year long review that's done independently, if that happens.
GrantedBail
Lead Florida Obamacare Navigator Gives Bad Advice on Credit Score Requirement
UPDATE: Packham retracts earlier claim that Floridians needed to provide credit score to apply for Obamacare, attributes mistake to 'human error'
Look, I am not going to defend the ACA. I am not happy about it either. But, there is so much disinformation that is spewed. I will be adding to this thread.
GrantedBail
But because so many people have been influenced and propagandized, most don't know the actual edicts of the ACA.