Caught between rising costs for health care and health insurance premiums and limited resources to
pay for medical services?

Thousands of working-age residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – our family, friends and neighbors – face that dilemma every day, uninsured and in need of medical care or prescriptions.

Today, many low-income residents who would have “fallen through the cracks” of the health care system benefit from community-based resources of five regional Access to Health Care coalitions.

Volunteer doctors and other health care providers, pharmaceutical companies and local pharmacies, hospitals and laboratories all contribute to make medical office visits, branded and generic drugs and medical testing available to some of the region’s most needy adults.

Information about programs in your area is only a click away. Find the program in your county from the service area map or in the Local Access Coalition list at right.

In 2006, more than 2,500 residents of the Upper Peninsula were served by Access Coalition programs in their communities and received
basic health care services, prescriptions and medical testing
free of charge or at low cost.