Like The ACA, Georgia Health Navigators Face Uncertain Future

Harold Weber (right), an Affordable Care Act navigator, assists a client at the Athens Neighborhood Health Center.

Georgia Health News

Harold Weber is what’s known as a navigator.

He has been helping people choose the right health insurance plan since 2013, when the Affordable Care Act went into effect. Working out of the Athens Neighborhood Health Center, he estimates that he has steered about 1,400 people through the complexities of the federal health insurance exchange for Georgia.

Today, as congressional Republicans look to repeal the 2010 health care law and replace with it a different plan, Weber and other navigators wonder if they’ll have jobs a year from now.