Link: ABQjournal: Medicaid Users May Lose Benefits.
SANTA FE— A little-known federal rule requiring Medicaid recipients to prove U.S. citizenship with birth certificates or passports might soon cost eligible New Mexicans health care, lawmakers were told Wednesday. As of July 1, under a proposal President Bush signed into law this February, New Mexico's roughly 410,000 Medicaid recipients— and people hoping to qualify for the program— will be restricted in the type of documents they can use as proof of citizenship to qualify for the federal low-income health care program.
