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Title: Toward a Healthy California: Why Improving Access to Medical Insurance for Unauthorized Immigrants Matters For the Golden State

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) has had dramatic impacts on reducing the numbers of uninsured Americans. However, it explicitly left out one important segment of the population with a noticeable lack of access to health insurance and medical care: unauthorized immigrants. While the politics of that decision were understandable, the consequences are problematic in states like California where an important share of the population (roughly seven percent) is undocumented and where an even larger share of children (nearly a fifth) have at least one undocumented parent. Insurance matters, although the connection to health is sometimes tenuous and unclear. Still, most Americans would rather be with than without – and one clear connection that does promote individual well-being is the way in which medical insurance helps to reduce financial risk . . . .

Url: https://www.immigrationresearch.org/system/files/Toward_A_Healthy_CA.pdf

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Authors: Marcelli, Enrico A; Pastor, Manuel; Wallace, Steven P

Publisher: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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