Reaching out to legal immigrants who need health care

Kaiser Health News staff writer Marilyn Werber Serafini, working in collaboration with The Washington Post, writes: "When Dillon Pefok agreed to coach a men's soccer team in the District's Soccer 4 Jesus church league, it wasn't his intention to teach the players about the 2010 health-care law between drills. But the league was brimming with uninsured African immigrants, and he had learned from a training session in March that the law would, among other things, extend Medicaid eligibility to thousands of lower-income people. ... Pefok is one of many faith and community leaders that the federal Department of Health and Human Services is targeting through a partnership with the Cameroon American Council" (Werber Serafini, 9/6). Read the story and watch the video.

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