{"id":1622,"date":"2013-09-18T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/interagency_action_an_important_step_to_protect_health_insurance_marketplace_users_from_scam_artists\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:54:05","slug":"interagency_action_an_important_step_to_protect_health_insurance_marketplace_users_from_scam_artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/interagency_action_an_important_step_to_protect_health_insurance_marketplace_users_from_scam_artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Interagency action an important step to protect health insurance marketplace users from scam artists &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><\/p>\n<p>September 18, 2013<\/p>\n<p><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n<p>Contact: NCL Communications, Ben Klein, (202) 835-3323, benk@nclnet.org<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC &#8211; The National Consumers League, the nation\u2019s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization, today applauded the announcement of a new interagency initiative to fight back against scam artists looking to take advantage of the launch of the new health insurance marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>The following statement is attributable to Sally Greenberg, Executive Director of the National Consumers League:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumers will soon begin to benefit from a key part of the Affordable Care Act. The state and federal health insurance marketplaces coming on line on October 1 promise to make health care more affordable for millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans. Unfortunately, experience has shown that scam artists frequently look to take advantage of confusion about new government programs to defraud consumers. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important that government agencies work together to get ahead of the threat and help protect consumers from unscrupulous con artists. The interagency initiative announced today promises to make life harder for fraudsters who want to profit from consumers\u2019 unfamiliarity with the new marketplaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America&#8217;s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 18, 2013 Contact: NCL Communications, Ben Klein, (202) 835-3323, benk@nclnet.org Washington, DC &#8211; The National Consumers League, the nation\u2019s pioneering consumer and worker advocacy organization, today applauded the announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}