KCUR : declared in Report Finds Barriers To Health Care For Immigrants, Refugees In KC Area

"We needed to learn more about the barriers to health care for these groups and get their perspectives on what would help them navigate health care systems," she said. Immigrants — both legal and undocumented — living in the metropolitan Kansas City area face unique barriers to health care, according to a report released this week by the REACH Healthcare Foundation. "Fear and mistrust" are significant barriers among undocumented immigrants, according to the report. Health care workers who lack an understanding of the immigration system and how it can "re-traumatize immigrants" escaping war, torture and other forms of violence. Other barriers cited in the report include:A lack of quality interpreters at hospitals, clinics and private physician practices to help immigrants and refugees navigate what they view as an overly complicated health care system.

House Chairman Skeptical of Conservatives' Health Care Idea

Opposition to the GOP health care bill has been a heated topic raised by some of those constituents. Walden is influential because he is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which wrote much of the health care bill. Constituents packed a high school gymnasium and clashed with him on issues like gun control, health care, immigration and the environment. He characterized the Republican's health care bill as "a work in progress. The White House and leaders of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus have discussed adding language to the GOP health care bill to let states seek federal waivers to that prohibition.



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