CHICAGO -- A top federal health official plans to visit a Chicago senior center to talk about the nation's new health care law.
U.S. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Dr. Howard Koh (KOH) is meeting with seniors on Tuesday.
His visit is part of a push by President Barack Obama's administration to address older people's mistrust of the new law.
Some polls show a higher percentage of seniors opposing the law compared to the population as a whole.
Koh plans to talk Tuesday about the free preventive care that people on Medicare will receive under the law.
Thousands of Illinois seniors already have received $250 rebate checks to help make up for Medicare's prescription drug coverage gap called the "doughnut hole."
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