He smiled politely at the older pair as they handed him a brochure.
“We don’t want everything from the government,” Arenas said. “But a little help, especially in this economy, I think it’s a good idea.”
Aida Cortez, 44, said she, her husband and two young daughters had lost their coverage at the start of the year because of “paperwork problems.” Her solution has been to “take better care of myself, exercise more, eat right,” she said. Still, she worried about her children, she said.
While the health law sounded promising, she hadn’t kept up on the details, Cortez told Lee. Would it be an HMO, or health maintenance organization, the kind of insurance plan that keeps tight reins on the doctors members can visit?
One Option
That’d be one option, Lee told her. The law’s tax subsidies, she said, could offer help in affording the plans.
Would Obamacare cover everybody in the house?
“It’s for everyone in America,” Lee said.
Lee and Cesard departed, moving slowly in the midday heat and humidity. After two hours, they’d knocked on more than a dozen unanswered doors, found one skeptic, a few supporters and several people, like Cortez, who were unsure about the law’s provisions or confused about its potential effects.
Lee called it a success.