Ind. Health Charity’s Board Says Obamacare Makes It Moot
March 25, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
A medical charity that helped uninsured low- and middle-income Indianapolis-area residents secure free health care is shuttering because most of those it served are eligible for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, writes the Indianapolis Star.
Project Health, a program of the Indianapolis Medical Society, will close at the end of March. In a statement on the charity’s Web site, its board said continuing the program would be akin to encouraging people not to abide by President Obama’s health care law, which targets patients like those who relied on the charity and levies fines on those who forgo coverage.
Local doctors and hospitals offered voluntary treatment to Project Health patients, performing more than 32,000 procedures over the program’s decade in operation.
