Cover the Uninsured

This Saturday, I'm helping out with a Medicaid enrollment event called Cover the Uninsured, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Every Saturday in April, there will be small teams of people at area Kroger stores ready to help people sign up for Medicaid.

Remember: Medicaid is health coverage for low-income people. But not just everyone can sign up. Medicaid coverage is only available to kids, parents of kids, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and people over the age of 65. If you are single and don't have kids, then you're out of luck, regardless of income. (That's our health care system for you.)

Below is an excerpt from the posters that Alex and I put up around town yesterday. Most people were cool about us posting the information, but others incorrectly viewed the poster as advertisement for Kroger and refused to post it in their business. Still, we're working to get the word out, and hopefully people will come out to get much-needed health coverage.

UNINSURED?

UNDERINSURED?

You may qualify for free health coverage!

Medicaid offers free health coverage to working families.

Example

Children living in a family of four can have household

income up to $45,000/year and qualify.

Find out if you qualify.

Come to one of these Kroger locations

from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

For more information call 2-1-1 or go to www.covercincy.org

Saturday, April 10
Cherry Grove - 7580 Beechmont Ave
Ferguson - 2310 Ferguson Rd
Forest Park - 1212 W Kemper Rd (Alex will be here!)
Hamilton - 1450 S Erie Blvd (I'll be here!)
Hartwell - 8241 Vine St
Middletown - 3420 Towne Blvd
Norwood - 4500 Montgomery Rd
Price Hill - 3609 Warsaw Ave
Queen City - 4777 Kenard Ave
Woodlawn - 10595 Springfield Pike

Saturday, April 17
College Hill - 7132 Hamilton Ave
Ferguson - 2310 Ferguson Rd
Hamilton - 1450 S Erie Blvd
Maineville - 5705 S S.R. 48 Northgate - 9690 Colerain Ave
Norwood - 4500 Montgomery Rd
Queen City - 4777 Kenard Ave
Roselawn - 1864 Seymour Ave
Whitewater Twp - 4001 S.R. 128
Woodlawn - 10595 Springfield Pike

So help us spread the word! If you, or someone you know needs health coverage and lives in the Greater Cincinnati area, send them our way. You might also want to tell them to bring the following items for their application:
● Proof of income
● Proof of any other health insurance
● Proof of pregnancy (if applicable)
● Picture i.d.
● Birth certificate

And if health coverage isn't incentive enough, there are free Kroger gift cards for those who apply!