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Minnesota Patient Advocacy Coalition Calls on Congress to “Keep Us Covered”
February 17, 2017
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (Feb. 17, 2017) — Minnesota’s leading patient advocacy groups will gather to deliver the message that any changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) must maintain critical patient protections and ensure coverage is affordable and adequate.
Their message is simple. Any changes to the law should provide equal or better coverage of disease prevention, treatment and follow-up care. That coverage should include:
- enabling young adults to stay on their parents' health plan until age 26.
- providing patients with no- or low-cost life-saving screenings.
- preventing patients from having their coverage canceled when they get sick.
- banning annual and lifetime dollar limits on coverage.
- prohibiting patients from being denied health coverage because they have a pre-existing condition.
The event will include a visual representation of the concept “Keep Us Covered.”
Where: Minnesota State Capitol
Conference Room 316, 3rd Floor
When: Wednesday, Feb. 22
10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Speakers: Patients, physicians and members of Minnesota’s patient advocacy organizations
The Minnesota Patient Advocacy Coalition is made up of more than twenty organizations dedicated to the promotion and protection of issues important to patients and their families. Members include the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, Minnesota AIDS Project and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Media contacts:
Jennifer Amundson, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, 651-255-8137, [email protected]
Justin Bell, American Heart Association, 952-278-7921, [email protected]
Dan Endreson, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 612-335-7930, [email protected]
Matt Toburen, Minnesota AIDS Project, 612-817-8589, [email protected]
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