A federal law designed to cut off public health benefits for illegal immigrants apparently is shutting out legal residents as well. An analysis of Medicaid enrollment in Wisconsin and five other states shows thousands of poor people who applied were denied….even though they were eligible. Shamane Mills reports….
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