Health Affairs
Volume 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1640-1653

Legal status and health insurance among immigrants: It is one's education, income, and place of employment that matter, not one's place of birth (Article)

Goldman D.P.* , Smith J.P. , Sood N.
  • a RAND, Santa Monica, CA, United States, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), United States
  • b RAND, United States
  • c RAND, NBER, United States

Abstract

The foreign-born represent a disproportionate share of nonelderly U.S. adults without health insurance. Using data from Los Angeles County, we find that most of the insurance disparities between the foreign-born and native-born can be explained by traditional socioeconomic factors. Undocumented immigrants, however, have lower rates of coverage - both private and public - even after a wide array of factors are controlled for. Applying Los Angeles County rates to the U.S. population implies that undocumented immigrants account for one-third of the total increase in the number of uninsured adults in the United States between 1980 and 2000. ©2005 Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

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information processing male female Emigration and Immigration Humans medically uninsured patient Article middle aged Data Collection United States human adult migration legal aspect Adolescent
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DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.6.1640
ISSN: 02782715
Cited by: 82
Original Language: English