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By Sarah Kliff @ Vox.com, from Sterling Heights, MI, July 26
Refugees and immigrants signed up for the coverage expansion. Their neighbors voted Trump into office.
The captions for photos by Elaine Cromie for Vox give an idea of the content:
Bushra Rahameed and her 10-year-old daughter Leeandra Sofi are Iraqi refugees who rely on Medicaid expansion for health coverage. “Every day I would pray that my kids don’t get sick,” she said of life before the Affordable Care Act.
Bushra Rahameed, 46, came to the United States as a refugee in 2012. Her family opened seven credit cards to pay their health care bills.
Leeandra Sofi, 10, and her parents, Amri Sofi and Bushra Rahameed, prepare dinner at home. “I don’t want anything from the government,” says Rahameed. “I don’t need the food stamps. Not anything. Just Medicaid.”
ACCESS’s health clinic in Dearborn, Michigan, serves a predominantly Arab-American population. Many of their patients are new immigrants and refugees to the area.
Kaes Almasraf worked as dentist in Iraq before immigrating to the United States, where he now works in Affordable Care Act enrollment.
Sterling Heights is a suburb about 30 minutes north of Detroit with a large Iraqi immigrant community.
May ElHaddad, 55, has undergone breast cancer treatment with her Medicaid coverage.
Sterling Heights is part of Macomb County, an area that supported Trump in the 2016 presidential election
Fadil and Hayfa Fardiha are both covered by Obamacare — but Fadil voted for Trump in the 2016 election. He liked the president’s “tough on terror” stance, and said Obamacare repeal wasn’t a key issue
Refugees, like the Sofi family, had an especially high uninsured rate prior to the Affordable Care Act. One study estimated 49 percent of the population lacked coverage.
Comments
“They’re all there with appointments for their workers, which means they have health care. If you can come from somewhere else, why can’t we all get it?” - exactly - we should all get it. So quit all this bitching and make it happen. It ain't rocket science.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/27/2017 - 3:19am