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Rosa María Carranza encourages a toddler to navigate uneven ground at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, California, on Dec. 5, 2025. Carranza will lose Medicare when a federal policy restricting health care coverage for some lawfully present immigrants takes effect next year.

Immigrant seniors lose Medicare coverage despite paying for it

Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza’s once secure retirement is in question.

El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrants.

Through innovative approaches to local journalism and civic engagement, El Tímpano surfaces community members’ stories and questions on local and national issues, provides news and information relevant to their needs, and investigates the concerns they bring to our attention.

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