Need help signing up for health insurance?
Contact Navigators at Thrive Allen County, 365-8128, as well as Joy Miller at Fort Scott’s Southwind Extension District office, 620-223-0332.
In 2014, a man in his fifties showed up at GraceMed Health Clinic in Wichita, asking about his options for buying health insurance.
He hadn’t bothered with coverage before. The expense proved daunting for someone running his own business.
GraceMed employee Juven Nava recalls helping the man find coverage for a monthly premium of about $20 through Healthcare.gov.
“For such a long time, the one thing that he felt he could sacrifice was health insurance,” Nava said.
And now he finally had it.
“I told him … ‘Use it. Get everything checked out. You haven’t been to a doctor in forever.’”
So the self-employed man did just that. The checkups uncovered cancer, and he began treatment.
