Reaching out to immigrants to educate them about health care law and insurance

This program with the Department of Health and Human Services is working with immigrants to help them learn about medical assistance they are eligible for. - - Donna Poisl

By Marilyn Werber Serafini

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.

Since then, Pefok has educated soccer players and coaches, as well as parishioners at Dunamis Life Chapel in Largo, where he heads up the men’s ministry.
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