Compact Aid in Health Reform

Compact Migrants, who are essentially like Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs) in status, will now receive federal funding for Medicaid. On the ground, at least, this has no change for the benefit package. What it does do is require the Federal Government, who entered into the treaty with the Pacific Island nations, to share the burden.

Again, it is a simple matter of policy, if we want the Compact for our military purposes as a forward stationing in the Pacific, we must give up something, and this overall, I think is a small price to pay.