Medicaid Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

Hawaii office gears for Medicaid deluge

By Journal on January 7, 2021 Covid19, Josie Howard, Karen Earnshaw, Medicaid, We are Oceania News Archive

KAREN EARNSHAWJosie Howard, Program Director of Hawaii’s We Are Oceania (WAO) organization, is feeling extremely grateful that the US government’s Covid-19 relief bill will finally reinstate Medicaid eligibility to all Compact of Free Association citizens living in the United States.“I’ve been meeting with Senator Mazie Hirono and others on this and we are all moving […]

FAS citizens engage with legislators in US

By Journal on June 3, 2016 David Anderson, Enid, FAS, Freely Associated States, Loyd Henion, Marshall Islands, Medicaid, Micronesia, Oregon, Palauans, Patrick Anderson Feature Articles

As more islanders from the Freely Associated States (FAS) settle in the United States through visa-free terms of the Compact with Washington, island communities are becoming increasingly active with state legislatures seeking recognition and engagement. In the mid-1990s, the US Congress eliminated eligibility of Marshall Islanders, Micronesians and Palauans for federal Medicaid health insurance, and […]