Immigrant Health Care: Many Not Eligible for Medicaid Expansion

California Healthline

"Despite the far-reaching potential expansion of Medicaid under the [Affordable Care Act], our estimates demonstrate that a substantial portion of low-income uninsured adults will be ineligible for Medicaid because of their immigration status." That is a key finding of a new study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which highlights four states with high percentages of immigrants: Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. In these states, the challenge of developing "strategies for meeting the health care needs of" immigrants will be "particularly difficult for safety-net providers in states with large numbers of immigrants who will not be eligible for Medicaid."

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