Still Broken Systems: Medical Deportation and the Shortcomings of Immigration and Health Reform
Written by Shena Elrington, Director of Health Justice at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and Lindsey Hennawi, Program Assistant Last November, Maria del Rocio “Rocio” Almanza Quiroz collapsed just one day before she was scheduled to appear for a biometrics examination to adjust her immigration status under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood [...]
By @BalancingJane, A tragedy has unfolded in my city. Last week, a six-month-old baby (who was black) was found in the hallway of an apartment complex, strapped into his car seat, healthy but alone. The media reported that the baby was found there with no clues to his identity or how he came to be alone in [...]
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By voting to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), Chief Justice Roberts avoids ignominy and perhaps even infamy. He avoids the fate of his predecessors on the bench by learning from history rather than repeating it. Last Thursday the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision upholding the Affordable Care [...]
Continue reading …Supreme Court’s Affirmation of ‘ObamaCare’ Means a Fundamentally Different Debate; Indian Health Care Improvement Act is Permanent
June 28, 2012 Comments Off
The entire debate over “ObamaCare” is now fundamentally different. It’s the law of the land that has been upheld by the Supreme Court. And, deep in the pages of the Affordable Care Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, is permanent. It no longer requires going back to Congress every few years and arguing for [...]
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By Dr. Arthur Ruebin James MD, Infant Mortality Advocate, It was reported Sunday that a Toledo, Ohio infant body was found in a freezer. Apparently, while cleaning an apartment after tenants had moved out, the landlord found a baby girl’s corpse in the freezer. A young woman, 20, and young man, 18, were charged with child endangerment. For those of [...]
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A racial justice perspective on the Medicaid debate The federal Medicaid program has become something of a policy piñata in the national discourse. Over the course of the past year conservatives have been asking, “is Medicaid real health insurance?” The public insurance program for low-income individuals has been criticized for not providing sufficient access to [...]
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My girl DeeDee was to most, including her older sister and mother, too young to care for a child. They, as women, had traveled the road of being young mothers and saw promise and redemption in DeeDee, who shared my gifted and talented classes in high school. I distinctly remember the somber faces sitting [...]
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The Idaho Legislature is considering a bill that would make it illegal to implement the Affordable Care Act in Idaho, the so-called “nullification” approach. The idea is that states can dismiss any federal law that they don’t like. And Idaho (and several other states) really don’t like health care reform. However most constitutional scholars [...]
Continue reading …Can’t touch this: Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance are protected from current budget threats
January 24, 2011 Comments Off
Journalists like me have played the role of Chicken Little for many years. We have written dozens of stories about the consequences of an election, predicting what will happen after Republicans win and fulfill their promises to drastically cut government. Only very little happened. Sure, there were significant budget cuts and restructuring of programs [...]
Continue reading …James was a man of small stature, but with much pizazz. He would come into the record store where I worked during undergrad to check the billboard charts once a week and purchase a few records here and there. He became my friend somewhere through mid to late nineties contemporary rhythm and blues. He had [...]
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