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What’s at Stake in West Virginia if the Affordable Care Act is Overturned?
October 20, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Join the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, Cabin Creek Health Systems, West Virginia Citizen Action Education Fund, and West Virginians for Affordable Health Care for a briefing on the imminent threat to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and what a decision overturning the health care law would mean for West Virginia’s people, health care infrastructure, and economy.
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The president of the UMWA will be on to address the effects on Black Lung care.
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Texas v. California, a lawsuit brought by Republican state Attorneys General that could overturn the entire ACA, will be heard in front of the Supreme Court of the United States next month. While a decision is not expected until next spring, a negative outcome would upend West Virginia’s health care system and threaten the well-being of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians who rely on its sweeping patient protections and health coverage provisions.
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Officials at all levels of government must adopt a disaster preparedness framework to ensure that plans are in place to mitigate- as much as possible- the significant and life-threatening harms that a court decision overturning the ACA would cause.
Speaking at the briefing will be:
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-Kelly Allen, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
-Cecil Roberts, President, United Mine Workers of America and Board Member of Cabin Creek Health Association
-Dr. Daniel Doyle, a physician in Fayette and Kanawha Counties
-Dr. Jessie Ice, executive director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care
-Joshua Carter, PsyD, director of MAT services at Cabin Creek Health Systems
–John Cline, Raleigh County, Black Lung attorney
-Jerry Coleman, President Kanawha County Black Lung Association
-Baily Hendricks, MAT patient and former Medicaid recipient
-Others to be announced
This event is open to the public as well as the media.
-Cecil Roberts, President, United Mine Workers of America and Board Member of Cabin Creek Health Association
-Dr. Daniel Doyle, a physician in Fayette and Kanawha Counties
-Dr. Jessie Ice, executive director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care
-Joshua Carter, PsyD, director of MAT services at Cabin Creek Health Systems
–John Cline, Raleigh County, Black Lung attorney
-Jerry Coleman, President Kanawha County Black Lung Association
-Baily Hendricks, MAT patient and former Medicaid recipient
-Others to be announced
This event is open to the public as well as the media.
Register today at https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_M7ehPam2QKi0HZFXubrVpQ
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Contact Kelly Allen at kallen@wvpolicy.org or 304-612-4180 with any questions.