Columbia University Researchers Highlight Research in Affordable Care Act (Legal status and health disparities: An examination of health insurance coverage among the foreign-born): Affordable Care Act

2023 SEP 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on affordable care act. According to news reporting out of Columbia University by NewsRx editors, research stated, “This paper employs a statistical matching procedure to impute the legal status of foreign-born adults in US Census surveys in order to estimate migration status disparities in health insurance coverage.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Columbia University: “Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we impute the legal/citizenship (migration) status of immigrants in the National Health Interview Survey. Results from the pooled data document disparities in health insurance coverage among four citizen/legal status groups: naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, legal nonimmigrants, and unauthorized immigrants. Naturalized citizens had the highest rate of health insurance coverage, followed by legal immigrants, legal nonimmigrants, and unauthorized immigrants.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The paper presents revised pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) estimates of health insurance coverage among the foreign-born that are crucial for evaluating the impact of the ACA on reducing or exacerbating disparities in health coverage among migration status groups.”

For more information on this research see: Legal status and health disparities: An examination of health insurance coverage among the foreign-born. Demographic Research, 2022,47():16. (Demographic Research - http://www.demographic-research.org/). The publisher for Demographic Research is Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2022.47.16.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Christal Hamilton, Columbia University.

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