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Koushik Paul

Koushik Paul

Koushik Paul is a University of Minnesota Medical School student and MD candidate for the class of 2025. He's on the board of directors at the Dakota Child and Family Clinic as the diversity, equity and inclusion director, and on the board of directors of Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity.

COMMENTARY

Giving undocumented people access to affordable health care is a moral obligation and smart policy

By: - May 10, 2023

I’m a medical student interested in primary care, having spent my early adulthood in rural Minnesota with my family as asylees, where we experienced tremendous barriers accessing health care.  Now, my experience informs my support for a proposal at the Legislature to include immigrants without status in MinnesotaCare, the state’s public health insurance program for […]