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‘Save Your Health Care’ Rally Planned For Dayton Friday

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WYSO/Jess Mador

Crowds are expected in downtown Dayton Friday evening for a rally against repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Organizers say the protest is needed as the United States Senate prepares to take up legislation that would roll back key provisions of the federal health law.

The GOP-backed American Health Care Act, recently passed by the House, calls for cutting Medicaid funding and allowing states to seek waivers opting them out of some patient protections. 

Dayton Indivisible for All organizer Davin Flateau says it’s important to send a message to Ohio lawmakers that health care matters.

“We are paying very, very close attention to an issue that is very personal to us, and that impacts our family’s health and finances. We need health care that works, ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions can actually have affordable health care,” he says. 

Flateau is encouraging people to come prepared to share a health-care story at the rally. Organizers say they plan to collect and videotape the stories to send to Ohio lawmakers.  

The protest is being organized by a coalition of Miami Valley anti-Trump administration groups.

What: Save Your Health Care Rally

Where: Courthouse Square When: Friday, May 19, 2017 at 6:30 pm

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Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding America initiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.
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