Democratic candidates vow to cover islanders who lost Medicaid

Four main candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination stated that their health care plans would cover tens of hundreds of Pacific Islanders who have been promised Medicaid coverage after U.S. nuclear-weapons testing however misplaced protection in a 1996 welfare reform invoice.

Spokespeople for the campaigns of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Vice President Joe Biden and businessman Andrew Yang all vowed that their candidates would provide coverage for residents of the Marshall Islands, a inhabitants profiled by POLITICO final week, in addition to cover residents of Palau and Micronesia.

"Yes, they’re coated beneath Medicare for All," stated a spokesperson for Sanders.

A spokesperson for former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg stated his campaign was "open to exploring options for this inhabitants." The marketing campaign of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) didn't reply to requests for remark.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), seen as a longshot for the nomination, has repeatedly launched or signed on to congressional laws to restore the islanders' Medicaid protection.

The difficulty has special resonance in Iowa, as an estimated 800 Marshall Islanders have relocated to Dubuque, looking for free or low-cost well being care at a clinic that makes a speciality of serving their population. Two presidential candidates — Buttigieg and Marianne Williamson, who has since exited the race — have visited Crescent Group Health Middle, the Dubuque-based clinic that gives special look after the islanders, clinic employees advised POLITICO.

The USA had pledged that residents of the Marshall Islands, Palau and Micronesia would have entry to Medicaid via a 1986 pact generally known as the Compact of Free Affiliation. The pact was signed about 4 many years after america began utilizing the Marshall Islands for in depth nuclear-weapons testing, which islanders and researchers have linked to myriad cancers and other well being problems. Nevertheless, the 1996 U.S. Private Duty and Work Alternative Act stripped the islanders of their access to Medicaid, a choice described as a legislative oversight.

A small band of lawmakers in Congress have spent more than a decade working to revive Medicaid protection for the islanders, who are non-voters. A minimum of 56,000 islanders are estimated to be dwelling, working and learning within the United States.

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