Trump Administration’s ‘Public Charge’ Rule Hasn’t Even Been Finalized Yet It’s Having A Chilling Effect On Immigrants
A new study by the Urban Institute found that 13.7% of adults in immigrant families say they did not participate in public benefit programs because they feared losing their legal status.
Modern Healthcare:
Fear Pushes Immigrants Out Of Medicaid, CHIP, Study Finds
An immigrant couple with two children recently asked Veronica Hernandez to write a letter for them canceling the family's Medicaid coverage because they feared that receiving public benefits would jeopardize the husband's legal status. Other patients at Mary's Center, a community health center in Washington, D.C., who are political asylum seekers are refusing to apply for public health insurance or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program out of similar fears, said Hernandez, the center's program coordinator for bilingual health access. (Meyer, 5/22)
In other news on Medicaid —
The Advocate:
17,000 People Must Prove They Qualify For Medicaid Or Be Kicked Off The Program
The Louisiana Department of Health has sent out a second round of letters to 17,000 Medicaid recipients warning the people they will be booted off the health insurance program unless they prove they qualify. And the agency is urging people to respond, after kicking more than 30,000 people off the program at the end of March, the vast majority because they did not reply to the first round of letters. (Karlin, 5/22)
Georgia Health News:
Medicaid Expansion Can Save Lives Of Infants And Moms, Study Says
A new study says Medicaid expansion has helped reduce states’ numbers of uninsured women of childbearing age – and cut their infant and maternal mortality rates. States that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act saw a 50 percent greater reduction in infant mortality than non-expansion states, according to the report from the Georgetown Center for Children and Families, released Wednesday. (Miller, 5/22)
