The decision came from a federal court judge, who said the state likely had violated the immigrants’ constitutional equal protection rights, according to the report.
Nearly 1,600 of the 11,000 residents are immigrants who are in the country legally but have been “lawfully” present for less than five years, while others had not supplied information to the state about their resident status in time to avoid removal from the program.
On March 1, the state Health Care Authority removed around 17,000 people from the program to save money. Those removed included children, seniors, those who made too much money, undocumented residents and people who had not lived in Washington legally for at least five years.
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