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

Jan 6 2010

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provision would make the migrants eligible for immediate Medicaid coverage, a benefit that they once held but was withdrawn more than 10 years ago (1/5).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.

Kaiser Health NewsThis article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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