House health care bill offers insurance help to some migrants from Pacific Islands

Kaiser Health News staff writer Jenny Gold, in collaboration with National Public Radio, goes to Springdale, Ark., the self-described "Chicken Capitol of the World," to report on an enclave of unlikely migrants -- 6,000 people from the Marshall Islands -- who are watching the health care debate with heightened interest.

Under the House bill, a little-noticed provision would make the migrants eligible for immediate Medicaid coverage, a benefit that they once held but was withdrawn more than 10 years ago (1/5). Read entire story.