# @politicomag on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2020-01-28T17:15:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** POLITICO Magazine (@politicomag) — https://gondola.cc/politicomag

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In Dubuque, Iowa, a community of Marshall Islanders has found a place to settle, decades after the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on their Pacific home. Some of the islanders are still learning English. Many are working low-wage jobs in local factories, restaurants and hotels. Most say they never planned to come here. That was before the United States nuked their homeland. Ruined their food supply. Then promised them free health care through Medicaid in return—but yanked it away in a mid-1990s welfare reform deal.

In Washington, a small band of lawmakers is trying to restore the islanders’ Medicaid coverage, a fight that one Democrat already has fought and lost for a decade. Here in Iowa, meanwhile, these islanders are finding that Dubuque offers them something they desperately need: The promise of free health care, delivered at a local clinic. And for residents of the Marshall Islands, where some radiation levels are still higher than Chernobyl, that’s more than enough to travel across the globe, to move to this chilly city nestled near the border of Illinois and Wisconsin. We take a look at if Washington can deliver on the promises it made at the link in our bio. 📷 smahaskey/POLITICO

#medicaid #marshallislands #iowa #longreads

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