1. Health Insurance Coverage of Children in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families
- Author:
- Randy Capps, Genevieve M. Kenney, and Michael E. Fix
- Publication Date:
- 11-2003
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- Public health insurance coverage increased—and rates of uninsurance decreased—between 1999 and 2002 among two groups of low-income, U.S. citizen children: those with parents who are native or naturalized U.S. citizens and those with at least one immigrant parent who is not a U.S. citizen (referred to as mixed-status families). The improvements followed efforts on the part of the states and the federal government to expand coverage of children under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the introduction of policies directed at improving Medicaid and SCHIP access for immigrant and non-English-speaking families. Nonetheless, more than one in five citizen children in low-income mixed-status families remained uninsured in 2002—a rate 74 percent higher than that of children with citizen parents.
- Topic:
- Health, Human Welfare, Migration, and Poverty
- Political Geography:
- United States