More here: http://tinyurl.com/plnu6Medicaid Rule Called A Threat To Millions
Proof of Citizenship Needed for Benefits
By Susan Levine and Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 30, 2006; Page A01
A Medicaid rule takes effect tomorrow that will require more than 50 million poor Americans to prove their citizenship or lose their medical benefits or long-term care.
Under the rule, intended to curb fraud by illegal immigrants, such proof as a passport or a birth certificate must be offered at the time a person applies for Medicaid benefits or during annual reenrollment in the state-federal program for the poor and disabled
Critics fear that the provision will have the unintended consequence of harming several million U.S. citizens who, for a variety of reasons, will not be able to produce the necessary paperwork. They include mentally ill, mentally retarded and homeless people, as well as elderly men and women, especially African Americans born in an era when hospitals in the rural South barred black women from their maternity wards. .....
What are Christians doing to combat this?
