How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Threatens Obamacare
Stricter enforcement has discouraged immigrants from seeking coverage before.
What Is DACA and Why Is Trump Ending It?
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As Obamacare open enrollment begins, health-care providers in immigrant communities worry that the Trump administration’s hard line on immigration will spook some immigrants and their U.S.-born relatives away from seeking health insurance.
In Baltimore, families with mixed immigration status “are telling us that they have a newfound hesitance to provide any information to the government” since Trump was elected, said Sarah Polk, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.