Immigrant advocates are asking the state's highest court to strike down a decision last year by lawmakers to deny tens of thousands of legal immigrants access to subsidized insurance under Massachusetts' health care law.
Health Law Advocates filed the lawsuit Thursday, calling the cut a violation of the equal protection clause of both the Massachusetts and federal constitutions.
The state budget approved by lawmakers last June ended health care funding for about 30,000 legal immigrants enrolled in Commonwealth Care, the subsidized plan that is the core of the 2006 law. Commonwealth Care provides subsidized insurance to those earning up to three times the federal poverty level.
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