Are you interested in expanding access to healthcare to improve health equity in your local community and building skills in health advocacy?
HUSKY for Immigrants Coalition and Health Equity Solutions are working on two campaigns focused on making medical care more accessible:
HUSKY for Immigrants Campaign
In the last three years, the HUSKY 4 Immigrant coalition successfully expanded HUSKY coverage to undocumented children ages 0-15 and to undocumented pregnant people (prenatal and postpartum). Although there have been great victories, most in our immigrant communities are still left behind with no access to healthcare. This is not sustainable, so we’re ready to keep fighting. This legislative session, we are advocating for the appropriation committee to include funds in the state budget to expand Medicaid to immigrants.
Hospital Financial Assistance Campaign
Medical debt is a major and growing contributor to the cycle of economic and health inequity. Racial inequities in income, wealth, and insurance coverage play a role in the prevalence and burden of medical debt. This is why Health Equity Solutions and healthcare advocates in Connecticut are advocating to improve the hospital financial assistance policies to increase accessibility to our communities that are most affected by medical debt.
If you are interested in getting involved with these causes, please fill out
this form so we can add you to this email list! We will be organizing and hosting various events including testimony workshops, postcard-writing workshops, and poster-making events.
For more information, contact: Grace Xiong at grace.xiong@uconn.edu