[1]Pramila Jayapal

Everyone
deserves health care as a human right — regardless of their immigration
status, how much they make, their employment status, or anything else.

As our fight for Medicare for All continues, we have to do everything we
can to expand health care to more who need it. That's why I joined my
friends Cory Booker and Nanette Diaz Barragán to introduce the Health
Equity and Access under Law (HEAL) for Immigrant Families Act. This bill
would remove cruel and unnecessary barriers to health care for immigrants
of all statuses.

[ [link removed] ]We're going to work hard to pass this legislation in Congress, but we
need your support too. Will you join us as an official citizen co-sponsor
of the HEAL Act today?

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The pandemic we're still living through reinforces the need to eliminate
barriers to health care and expand access, as COVID-19 has
disproportionately impacted immigrants who represent a substantial part of
America's essential, frontline workforce. Immigrants are also
significantly more likely to be uninsured, placing them at a higher risk
for adverse health and financial consequences.

Here's how the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act will help:

🏥 Ensure critical access to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance
Program by lifting the current five-year period that lawfully present
immigrants — including kids — must wait before being able to enroll in
these programs

🏥 Finally provide access to public and affordable health coverage for DACA
recipients

🏥 Remove the current restrictions that prevent undocumented immigrants
from purchasing care through the Affordable Care Act marketplace while
ensuring these individuals can obtain premium-tax credits and cost-sharing
reductions

As a proud immigrant who came to this country alone at the age of 16, I
know that the HEAL Act is an urgent, necessary, and just first step to
eliminating senseless barriers to health care, making our communities
healthier, and ensuring all immigrants get the care they need — during a
pandemic and always. 

[ [link removed] ]Let's
build the movement that will get this done — join me, Senator Cory Booker,
and Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán as a co-sponsor of the HEAL for
Immigrant Families Act today.

Add Your Name »

Thank you for adding your voice to this fight,

Pramila

 

 

 


 


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