Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits
Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits.
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Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, looks to undo a decision made by former Republican Gov. Paul LePage and a Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011. That move made most non-citizens in Maine ineligible for MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program for the poor.
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Updated April 15
Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits
Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits.
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Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, looks to undo a decision made by former Republican Gov. Paul LePage and a Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011. That move made most non-citizens in Maine ineligible for MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program for the poor.