Meier authored a
law requiring the United States Department of
Health and Human Services to apply for a
Federal Medicaid waiver to create a pilot program to offer less costly, more appropriate
care to Medicaid patients in
need of long - term
care.
«The
federal government has abdicated responsibility to meet the most basic
health care needs of vulnerable refugees and refugee claimants», said Audrey Macklin, Professor and Chair in Human Rights
Law at the University of Toronto, and a member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.