Misinformation is a key reason many are opposed to the Affordable Health Care Act, said Dr. Donald Nguyen, Ohio co-director of Doctors For America, a national group with 15,000 members, including 150 in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas.

“You have to weed through the screamers and the yellers,” the pediatric urologist at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton said following his presentation Sunday at the Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Centerville, which celebrated the second anniversary of the signing of the act March 23, 2010.

Nguyen said the act is packed with consumer protections meant to reform the health care system, making it more accessible and affordable.

“This bullet train is going off a cliff,” he said of the health care cost during his talk. “These things are good for the patients and they are good for the health care providers.”

Nguyen’s speech was part of the One Million Campaign, an endeavor by doctors and medical students to speak to one million Americans about the positive aspects of the Affordable Care Act. There will be about 40 events across the state this week celebrating the act, including a party 4 p.m. Saturday at the Universalist Fellowship.

Dayton Tea Party President Don Birdsall can find nothing positive about the act often called ObamaCare.

The federal government has no business in the health care business and the act takes away individual choice and liberties, he said.

Among other things, it will require Americans to carry health insurance, except in cases of financial hardship, or pay a fine. The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on the act’s constitutionality.

Birdsall hopes it is reversed.

“If they can tell us to buy health care they can tell us to buy peanut butter,” he said. “Where does it end.”

Kettering city council member Rob Scott said the health care act was once considered the “crown jewel” of the Obama administration, but now it is an anchor that will sink the president’s re-election effort.

“We can’t afford it,” said Scott, who is running to be Montgomery County Republican Party chairman.

To help lower health care cost, he said the government should eliminate Federal Drug Administration regulations that lead to high cost medicine and remove restitutions that prevent cross-state selling of health insurance. Scott said there should be an emphasis on preventative care.

“We need to start being a healthier country,” he said.

A recent Associated Press-GfK poll said that while 35 percent of Americans support the health care law overhaul, 47 percent oppose it.

Nguyen and local Doctors for America members Dr. Katerine Lambes and Dr. Matt Noordsij-Jones, a married couple, said that the more people learn about the act, the more likely they will be to support it.

Lambes said the rules that would require health plans to cover a long list of preventive services such as well-baby checks, many cancer screenings, and blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol tests without cost sharing could save the nation millions by addressing medical issues before they become serious and costly.

“We are already paying for a lack of preventative care,” she said.

Other aspects include requiring companies to insure children with “pre-existing conditions” and removing insurance caps.