Immigrants deserve health care too

You may have seen or heard this commercial that’s been airing on television and radio for the past several months. It’s part of a campaign by the affordable healthcare advocacy group, The California Endowment, to highlight the fact that undocumented...

Don McCanne, MD: Rationing By Inconvenience

Immigrants’ Experience with Publicly Funded Private Health Insurance The New England Journal of Medicine August 5, 2010 To the Editor: On October 31, 2009, Massachusetts involuntarily transferred about 30,000 legal immigrants (mostly “green card” holders) from...