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.
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.
Thank you for adding your voice to this fight,
Pramila
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