Latino Health Insurance Program reaches out to immigrants - Massachusetts

Rosa Ventura, a Salvadoran immigrant, was told she could not qualify for MassHealth because she could not produce paycheck stubs. For three years, going to the doctor meant paying as much as $50 per office visit. When her eldest son, who has cerebral palsy, needed special leg braces, she had to scrape together $2,000.

Then last year, a community healthcare initiative called the Latino Health Insurance Program helped Ventura apply for MassHealth, Commonwealth Care, and the state’s subsidized health insurance program, and helped her get disability benefits for her son.

“It changed my life,” Ventura said during a recent interview conducted in Spanish. “I even cried.”"*

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