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Statehouse News Bureau: Some Children Denied Medical Care

Last summer, Congress passed a new federal law requiring medicaid recipients to prove they are U.S. citizens. One goal was to stop illegal immigrants from receiving free medical care, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers. Now, advocates for children are saying there's been an unintended consequence purely legal citizens, most of them children, are being denied the free medical care. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.