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Immigrant communities pay handsomely into our health care system only to have no access to it. Maine can do better.

Immigrant communities pay handsomely into our health care system only to have no access to it. Maine can do better.

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. Share 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 ...

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. Share 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 decisio...