Hong Pham v. Starkowski

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Connecticut’s elimination of state-funded health insurance for aliens merely implemented the Act’s restrictions and did not create any alienage-based classifications
• concluding that Connecticut’s elimination of state-funded health insurance for aliens merely implemented the Act’s restrictions and did not create any alienage-based classifications
• rejecting claim that equal protection clause requires State to use State funds to provide plaintiff aliens with equivalent level of benefits provided to citizens through Federal Medicaid program
• rejecting claim that equal protection clause requires State to use State funds to provide plaintiff aliens with equivalent level of benefits provided to citizens through Federal Medicaid program
• applying rational basis scrutiny to Connecticut’s PRWORA- based alien eligibility restrictions
• “[T]he equal protection clause does not require the states to ‘fill the gap’ in coverage for the class members that the federal government had created under the Welfare Reform Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).