Health Affairs
Volume 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 544-550

Trends in health care spending for immigrants in the United States (Article)

Stimpson J.P. , Wilson F.A. , Eschbach K.
  • a Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, Fort Worth, United States
  • b Department of Health Management and Policy, University of North Texas, Health Science Center, United States
  • c Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States

Abstract

The suspected burden that undocumented immigrants may place on the U.S. health care system has been a flashpoint in health care and immigration reform debates. An examination of health care spending during 1999-2006 for adult naturalized citizens and immigrant noncitizens (which includes some undocumented immigrants) finds that the cost of providing health care to immigrants is lower than that of providing care to U.S. natives and that immigrants are not contributing disproportionately to high health care costs in public programs such as Medicaid. However, noncitizen immigrants were found to be more likely than U.S. natives to have a health care visit classified as uncompensated care. © 2010 Project HOPE-The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

Author Keywords

[No Keywords available]

Index Keywords

immigrant health care policy Health Surveys United States Health Care Costs health program Humans Interviews as Topic male female Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) Health Expenditures Article health care adult medicaid Emigration and Immigration health care system Transients and Migrants Uncompensated Care public sector Healthcare Disparities Health Services Accessibility Data Collection
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77957316558&doi=10.1377%2fhlthaff.2009.0400&partnerID=40&md5=4c0fd4d36953a4a64cca783ff859a62c
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0400
ISSN: 02782715
Cited by: 40
Original Language: English