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In a rare moment of consensus, health care industry groups uniformly blasted the Trump administration's proposal to penalize legal immigrants for using Medicaid and other public benefit programs, warning it would have broad negative effects on the health care system, government budgets, and public health. The Department of Homeland Security received 210,889 comments on its proposed "inadmissibility on public charge grounds" rule, issued in October, when the comment period ended Monday. (Harris Meyer, Modern Healthcare)        
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Publications - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research