Posted on 08/31/2009 6:59:14 PM PDT by Steelfish
Massachusetts Cuts Back Immigrants’ Health Care
By ABBY GOODNOUGH Published: August 31, 2009
BOSTON — State-subsidized health insurance for 31,000 legal immigrants here will no longer cover dental, hospice or skilled-nursing care under a scaled-back plan that Gov. Deval Patrick announced Monday.
Mr. Patrick said his administration had struggled to find a solution “that preserves the promise of health care reform” after the state legislature cut most of the $130 million it had previously allotted immigrants, to help close a budget deficit.
Although their health benefits will be sharply curtailed in some cases, Mr. Patrick portrayed the new program as a victory, saying the services that the affected group tends to use the most will still be covered.
“It’s an extraordinary accomplishment,” he said in a conference call with reporters, “to offer virtually full coverage for the entire population that’s been impacted in the face of really extraordinary budget constraints.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That rumbling you here is Teddy rolling over like a beached whale in his grave ...
Title misleading. It should say legal immigrants; not immigrants.
subsidized health insurance for 31,000 legal immigrants here will no longer cover dental, hospice or skilled-nursing care
“will no longer cover dental, hospice or skilled-nursing care”
Whoop de doo! Those things aren’t even covered by Medicare...for people who are citizens and have paid into it for their entire lives.
What is this a typo ? or is is it just more irrational "reporting"?
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