BOSTON
Unanimous decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, an official of the State administration is expected to be forced to spend an additional $ 150 million, coming in a lawsuit filed after the legislature make cost-cutting moves to exclude noncitizen immigrants from the program in 2009.
“The discrimination that limits the language to enable violates their right to protection under the Constitution of Massachusetts,” wrote Justice Robert Cordy.
The Court, as in previous decisions linked to the case, said the country did not justify exclusion on the basis of fiscal concerns alone.
The decision by lawmakers to bar legal immigrants from the Commonwealth Care marked the first significant rollback state landmark health law which was signed by then Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, in 2006.