ListenMinnesota family stuck without care after thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid coverage
In a sunny room at a Twin Cities-area assisted living home, a young woman leans down to squeeze her mother’s hand, as she sits in a wheelchair.
The care facility has been the mother’s home for four years. Here, she gets care for a brain injury sustained in a bombing at the Kabul airport. She can’t walk or take care of herself — but she can answer basic questions and laugh at her daughter’s jokes in her weekly visits…