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- Title
Legal status and health insurance among immigrants.
- Authors
Goldman, Dana P; Smith, James P; Sood, Neeraj
- 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.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2005, Vol 24, Issue 6, p1640
- ISSN
0278-2715
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.24.6.1640