A Bitter Pill for Md. Immigrants: "When the State Cut Health Care Coverage for Some Recent Arrivals, They Were Left to Watch Their Children Suffer as They Searched for Help
By Mary Otto
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 17, 2006; Page B01
Seldom does a budget cut help cripple a child.
Yet when Maryland cut $7 million last year and eliminated health care coverage for some recent immigrants, surgery was canceled on Eelaaf Zahid's malformed hip. Now, as her family looks to the courts and other state programs for help, an outgrown medical device implanted in her hip three years ago protrudes from her small body. The Glen Burnie kindergartener walks with a limp."
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