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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Immigrants, advocates push for expansion of state’s affordable health care program

Alfredo Palafox, a community organizer with the Southwest Organizing Project, stands outside Queen of the Universe Church, one of many Southwest Side churches his organization helps. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

If Alfredo Palafox had health insurance, he imagines he could see the world more clearly.

Palafox, 28, doesn’t qualify for the state’s affordable health care program because he isn’t a U.S. citizen, and in the 10 years since he aged out of a program that included noncitizens, his health has suffered.

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