Illegal immigrants feel pinch of Medicaid reductions
While the world is knocking at the door with fear echoes Fernando Benitez two-storey house in Norcross.
Benitez, 21, an illegal immigrant from muscular dystrophy, has learned this month that Georgia has cut Medicaid as part of efforts to reduce the number of people with the regulations, health care for the poor and persons with disabilities. For the last four years, Medicaid has paid for breathing apparatus and feeding tubes, that Benitez living.
“This is our worst fear, Cesario Castrejon, Benitez’s grandfather, said in Spanish on the drone dumpfe breathing apparatus for her grand-son of the page.
“Whether they come for the machine.”
Georgia to be used with their generous Medicaid benefits. But the Georgia Department of Community Health, for a federal audit, Medicaid has increased its participation in the values of Confederation.
Part of this effort involves ensuring that Medicaid for illegal immigrants’ emergency ‘events. Benitez has learned this month that his condition is not considered an emergency, but is considered a chronic disease. His requests were denied Medicaid for the first time this month, but it projects.
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