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California's expansion of Medicaid will face other challenges. The state is chugging through a review of Medicaid enrollees' eligibility for the first time in more than three years that was prompted by the end of some federal pandemic policies. Many immigrants who had their ...
California’s expansion of Medicaid won’t be easy. A confluence of events, including the state’s slow rollout of the expansion and the end of some federal pandemic policies, mean about 40,000 low-income immigrants will likely lose their health coverage for up to a year in 2023 before bei...
According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s website, “immigrants can receive hospital care through local county indigent programs” if they do not qualify under Medicaid or Medicare assistance plans but still cannot afford healthcare coverage. Most people think that only illegal i...
OBJECTIVES: We compared health insurance status transitions of nonimmigrants and immigrants. METHODS: We used multivariate survival analysis to examine gaining and losing insurance by citizenship and legal status among adults with the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. RESULTS: We found significan...
has borderline significance in predicting health decline (p=.052). Estimated coverage costs for health insurance for largely undocumented immigrants increase over time, but remain lower than those of comparable U.S.-born individuals. We conclude with several policy implications. 展开 ...
health care system for Mexican immigrants (Kirby, Taliaferro, & Zuvekas, 2006). Further, Mexican immigrants also tend to work in industries which typically do not offer health insurance coverage (Alker and Urrutia, 2004, Waidmann et al., 2004). While all of these reasons are likely ...
Using the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation—the only national survey that distinguishes LPRs from other non-citizens—we employ logistic regression to compare estimates of health insurance coverage for legal immigrants using two methods to infer legal status: (1) a logical approach ...
immigrants access health services for their children in Alberta, Canada. Our study involved a descriptive qualitative design. Upon receiving ethics approval from the University of Alberta Research Ethics Board, we invited immigrant parents to participate in this study. We interviewed 50 immigrant parents...
Legislatively, Massachusetts has paved the way for other states: It led the way in universal health care coverage, with a plan enacted in 2006 that inspired former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. It was also the first state to legalize gay marriage and the second to pass discr...