Tri-State health officials are coming together to make sure you take advantage of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act.

A Healthy Resolutions Fair was held at St. James Episcopal Church in Westwood Saturday.

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It was put on by the Cincinnati Healthcare Marketplace enrollment assistance center.

With a point and click, aides like Crystal Kendrick are changing lives. In some cases, enrollees have not had health care in years.

"Its been a long time since Ive seen a grown man cry. It brings joy to our office to help people who don't think they can have health insurance at all, Kendrick said.

The expansions of the national health care marketplace, along with Medicaid in Ohio, have impacted some 45 million Americans.

During this second enrollment period, counselors like Ariel Miller have assisted some who did not know how they could afford to see a doctor.

"I said, If you make less than $16,000 as a single person, it looks like you are eligible for Medicaid,'" Miller said.

Denise Hayes, of the Cincinnati Enrollment Assistance Center, believes health care should be a basic right.

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