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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps10/11/2013 1:27:39 PM
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Tennessee State Government makes it illegal to help people enroll on state exchange.

For the past three decades, Reverend Jerry Crisp has preached the gospel in Whiteville, Tenn., a faded factory town with a 36% poverty rate and the health challenges of a developing country. When Crisp heard that Tennessee was getting a federally run health care exchange—an online marketplace where uninsured people can shop for affordable coverage—he knew it was big news for his community. He also knew that a lot of his neighbors would need help tapping opportunities fostered by the nation’s new health-care law (aka Obamacare). Many of them lacked computers or computer skills, let alone any knowledge of health insurance. So Crisp hatched a plan. When the Tennessee marketplace opened on Oct. 1, his church would open its small computer lab to people looking for health coverage—and volunteers from the congregation would offer assistance to anyone asking for it.

There was just one problem. Under rules devised by hostile Tennessee officials, only state-certified agents could help people enroll in Tennessee’s new health care exchange. If a friend, neighbor or community volunteer wanted to share information or insight, that person had to be vetted, fingerprinted and registered with the state insurance department. Under emergency rules the state imposed in mid-September, any unlicensed person caught “facilitating enrollment” in a health care exchange could be fined $1,000 for each offense. “We were fearful about the penalties that could be levied against us,” Crisp says, “so we held off on opening our doors to the community.”

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