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immigrants’ health care | editorial

SJC decision costly but correct

  January 18, 2012

Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court struck down a law that prevented certain legal immigrants residing in Massachusetts from being eligible for Commonwealth Care. The court found that the law, which required immigrants to be resident in the United States for five years before they could receive subsidized health care through the state of Massachusetts, represented unconstitutional discrimination “on the basis of alienage and national origin.’’ It was entirely fair and necessary.

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