BlueWaveNJ To Hold Montclair Forum On Trumpcare, Obamacare

From BlueWaveNJ: New Jersey-based community activist group BlueWaveNJ will host "What’s Next for the ACA and What it Means for You" on May 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Montclair (40 S. Fullerton Avenue).

According to organizers, the health care community forum will address the "GOP’s continued attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and will advise NJ residents about what they must do as individuals and as a community to protect their coverage."

Speakers will include the former Chairman of the Congressional Subcommittee on Health, NJ Congressman Frank Pallone; Raymond Castro, Director of Health Policy for New Jersey Policy Perspective; and Maura Collinsgru, Health Care Program Director at New Jersey Citizen Action.

Those planning to attend should RSVP at bluewavenj.org/healthcareforum

“We must remain resolute in protecting the rights of all of our citizens to have access to affordable, quality health care,” said Marcia Marley, president and co-founder of BWNJ. “Almost weekly I hear stories about how the Affordable Care Act has saved someone’s life. The ACA alternatives being proposed by the GOP are truly unthinkable and will have catastrophic results.”

“The ACA saved my life by covering hundreds of thousands of dollars of treatment I needed to battle breast cancer,” said Michelle Ward, a Montclair resident and mother of a young child. “While I’m healthy now, there’s no way to know what’s to come. Not knowing if I’ll be able to get coverage through the ACA, or if my pre-existing condition could make that coverage unaffordable, is a fear I live with daily.”

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