Immigration Reform: A Long Road To Citizenship And Insurance Coverage

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EntryPoint Health AffairsVol. 32, No. 4: The ‘Triple Aim’ Goes Global ENTRY POINTImmigration Reform: A Long Road To Citizenship And Insurance CoverageRandy Capps and Michael Fix Affiliations Randy Capps ( [email protected] ) is a senior policy analyst and demographer at the Migration Policy Institute, in Washington, D.C. Michael Fix is the institute’s senior vice president and director of studies. PUBLISHED:April 2013No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0187AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleAbstractThe 2012 elections reinvigorated the drive for overhauling US immigration laws, but citizenship and health coverage for millions of unauthorized immigrants could still be a decade or more away.TOPICSImmigrantsUninsuredAffordable Care ActSafety net hospitalsAccess to careInsurance coverage and benefitsMedicaidChildren's healthPaymentCosts and spending Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 16 History Published online 1 April 2013 Information Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. PDF downloadCited ByThe Intersection of State-Level Immigrant Policy Climates and Medicaid Expansion: an Examination Among Immigrants29 August 2022 | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Vol. 106Sick Days: Logical Versus Survey Identification of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States18 April 2022 | International Migration Review, Vol. 6You Have to Pay to Live: Somali Young Adult Experiences With the U.S. Health Care System24 May 2021 | Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 31, No. 10Medicaid Expansion Improved Health Insurance Coverage For Immigrants, But Disparities PersistJim P. Stimpson and Fernando A. Wilson1 October 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 37, No. 10Health of newly arrived immigrants in Canada and the United States: Differential selection on healthHealth & Place, Vol. 48Health care, immigrants, and minorities: lessons from the affordable care act in the U.S.12 June 2017 | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 43, No. 12Obamacare in action: how access to the health care system contributes to immigrants’ sense of belonging12 June 2017 | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 43, No. 12Still left out: healthcare stratification under the Affordable Care Act12 June 2017 | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 43, No. 12Immigrant Status and Its Impact on Access to Health CareOpen Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 05, No. 12Impact of Medicare Age Eligibility on Health Spending among U.S. and Foreign-Born Adults20 October 2015 | Health Services Research, Vol. 51, No. 3What Health Care Reform Means for Immigrants: Comparing the Affordable Care Act and Massachusetts Health ReformsJournal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 41, No. 1Unauthorized Immigrants Prolong the Life of Medicare’s Trust Fund18 June 2015 | Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 31, No. 1Excluded and Frozen Out: Unauthorised Immigrants’ (Non)Access to Care after US Health Care Reform17 July 2015 | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 41, No. 14Implementing Federal Health Reform in the States: Who Is Included and Excluded and What Are Their Characteristics?26 September 2014 | Health Services Research, Vol. 49, No. S2ED visits and spending by unauthorized immigrants compared with legal immigrants and US nativesThe American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 32, No. 6Unauthorized Immigrants Spend Less Than Other Immigrants And US Natives On Health CareJim P. Stimpson, Fernando A. Wilson, and Dejun Su2 August 2017 | Health Affairs, Vol. 32, No. 7