Community Meetings on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Change is coming to health care. You need to know what’s happening with your health care, and we want to hear about why health care is important to you.
That’s why we’re hosting community meetings across Ohio for anyone who has questions about what’s next for health care or who can share their experience with health care, good or bad. Our first meetings in January indicated a need to reach out to more communities.
If anyone you know has questions about what’s going to happen to health care, please share this information. If you’re part of an organization that works with people who benefit from the Affordable Care Act or expanded Medicaid, please share this information. Click here for a flyer that you can print or share.
Community Meeting Dates
Canton
Tuesday, March 7, 6:00-8:00 PM
Stark County District Library
2nd floor meeting room
715 Market Ave N, Canton, OH 44702
Lima
Tuesday, March 7, 6:00-7:45 PM
Lima Public Library
650 West Market Street, Lima, Ohio 45801
Findlay
Tuesday, March 7, 6:00-8:00 PM
St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church
120 W. Sandusky St.
Findlay, OH 45840
Marietta
Thursday, March 9, 6:00-8:00 PM
Washington County Public Library
615 5th St, Marietta, OH 45750
Ironton
Thursday, March 9, 6:00-7:30 PM
Briggs Lawrence County Public Library
321 S 4th St, Ironton, OH 45638
Mansfield
Thursday, March 9, 6:00-8:00 PM
Mansfield Richland County Public Library
Small meeting room, 2nd floor
43 W 3rd St, Mansfield, OH 44902
Columbus Dispatch Article: Ohioans Fear Repeal of Affordable Care Act
An article published yesterday in the Columbus Dispatch focuses on four Ohioans who fear they will lose their health coverage if the Affordable Care Act is repealed.
Click here to read the article.
Josh Lapp told UHCAN Ohio his story and is one of the Ohioans interviewed for the article. He is an entrepreneur who purchases insurance through the Health Care Marketplace. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, he was able to start his own business while still getting the health care he needs for a heart defect he’s had since birth. Without the Marketplace health insurance plans he and his business partners rely on, he says, “”We would all have to rethink what we were doing… Are we going to be entrepreneurs? … Or are we going to be forced out of that and having to go work for someone else?”
Read the article for more insight into what’s at stake if Ohioans lose access to health care coverage. Please call your members of Congress today and tell them not to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a BETTER replacement in place. Health care affects everyone. Click here to find your Representative, and click here to contact Ohio’s Senators. Call UHCAN Ohio for any help in contacting them or to tell your story – 614-456-0060.
