Now Rescinded, Trump-era ‘Public Charge’ Policy may Still Harm Immigrants’ Health | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

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Now Rescinded, Trump-era ‘Public Charge’ Policy may Still Harm Immigrants’ Health | Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s expansion of the “public charge” rule — a move that sought to disqualify immigrants who used social programs like Medicaid from obtaining legal residency in the U.S. — led to widespread disenrollment from these programs and left scores of children in California without access to health care in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.