FLORENCE-United States Senator Doug Jones’ office issued a press release stating that the senator would be speaking in the Shoals on Monday, July 1.
The Senator will be speaking in a townhall meeting at 5Pm in the Film Screening Room of the University of North Alabama Communications Building. Jones’ townhall is part of a health care tour that is taking place throughout the state of Alabama.
The tour is coming just before oral arguments regarding the Affordable Care Act. The suit is being brought by twenty Republican attorneys the suit states the act should be removed due to the tax change that has removed the penalty for not having insurance.
Senator Jones, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, wants to increase access to quality affordable healthcare, according to the statement issued by his office.