Nativity and citizenship status affect Latinos’ health insurance coverage under the ACA

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7843766
AutoresG R Sanchez (0000-0002-3234-1147, University of New Mexico, autor correspondente), Edward D Vargas (0000-0002-3915-0634, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Melina Juarez (0000-0001-9012-1145, University of New Mexico), Melina D Juarez, Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga (0000-0002-6669-9788, University of New Mexico), Francisco I Pedraza (0000-0002-4784-8370, University of California, Riverside)
Ano2017
Volume43
Fascículo12
Páginas2037-2054
Data de publicação2017-09-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2017.1323450
OpenAlexW2626290930
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas43

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed to increase health insurance access for the over 47 million uninsured people in the U.S.A., among whom ethnoracial minorities had the highest uninsured rates before the ACA. Studies have shown that Latinos have had the greatest improvements in health coverage under the ACA, but many may be at a significant disadvantage, specifically due to their nativity and immigration status, as the ACA explicitly excludes unauthorised immigrants from most of its provisions. Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey, a nationally representative sample of Latinos (n = 1493), we find that variation in health insurance access among Latinos can be traced to immigration status. This study finds no differences among U.S.-born versus foreign-born Latinos in the likelihood of being uninsured in 2015. However, among foreign-born Latinos, unauthorised immigrants are five times more likely than naturalised citizens to be uninsured and less likely to visit a primary care provider or clinic, even after controlling for other factors including language, income and education

Citizenship · Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Economics · Foreign born · Health care · Health insurance · Immigration · Native-Born · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma