Urge your U.S. Senator to support the Menendez Amendment in health care reform. This amendment would provide states with the option to extend Medicaid to all qualified legal immigrants without a five-year wait. It is important to call today, as amendments to this bill may be voted on as early as tomorrow. Immigrants work in our communities, pay taxes and contribute richly to life in the United States. Many legal immigrants are uninsured because they work in industries or small businesses that do not offer health care coverage. As many as 600,000 legal immigrants may be eligible for Medicaid if the five-year waiting period is eliminated. States now using their own funds to provide insurance for legal immigrant adults would get federal matching money. The majority of Americans support eliminating the five-year waiting period for legal immigrants. Urge your U.S. Senator to support the Menendez Amendment in health care reform. This amendment would provide states with the option to extend Medicaid to all qualified legal immigrants without a five-year wait. It is important to call today, as amendments to this bill may be voted on as early as tomorrow. Immigrants work in our communities, pay taxes and contribute richly to life in the United States. Many legal immigrants are uninsured because they work in industries or small businesses that do not offer health care coverage. As many as 600,000 legal immigrants may be eligible for Medicaid if the five-year waiting period is eliminated. States now using their own funds to provide insurance for legal immigrant adults would get federal matching money. The majority of Americans support eliminating the five-year waiting period for legal immigrants. 
