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Healthcare bill raises fear of denied coverage among legal immigrants By Jennifer Karmarkar and Scott FaheyAs Congress moves closer to passing legislation that will expand health insurance coverage to 30 million Americans, many immigrant rights advocates worry that proposed reforms will leave large numbers of legal immigrants without insurance. At issue is whether Congress will retain a 1996 welfare reform law requiring legal, non-citizen immigrants to wait... [Read more of this review]
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