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Dan Diamond
National Health Reporter
I'm a national health reporter for the Washington Post and previously worked for POLITICO. I was a 2020 National Fellow.
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For two decades, victims of U.S. nuclear bomb tests fought to obtain the Medicaid eligibility that was promised them. In the waning days of 2020, they won.
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After fleeing their homeland scarred by U.S. nuclear tests, Marshall Islanders finally get the health care that was promised them.
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The United States used their homeland for nuclear test-bombing, then denied them Medicaid. Now, their way of life in the U.S. heartland has left them prime prey for the pandemic.
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It's hard to tell the story of how the Marshallese came to America without starting with the nuclear bombs.