Reports from Boston Children’s Hospital Add New Data to Findings in Immigrant and Minority Health (Chilling Effects On Immigrants’ Health Insurance Coverage After the 2016 Presidential Election): Health and Medicine – Immigrant and Minority Health

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2022 APR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on Health and Medicine - Immigrant and Minority Health have been presented. According to news reporting originating in Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Depressed enrollment in public benefits among immigrants and their families may occur due to concerns about deportation and obstacles to permanent residency status related to immigration policies. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2014 to 2019, we conducted an interrupted time series analysis to estimate Medicaid enrollment, private insurance enrollment, and uninsured rates among low-income non-citizen adults and their children, compared to U.S. citizens before and after the Trump administration entered office in January 2017.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Boston Children’s Hospital, “Compared to U.S. citizen adults, Medicaid enrollment among non-citizen adults decreased and the uninsured rate increased (1.5 percentage points per year, p< 0.05) from 2017 to 2019. Decreases in coverage starting in 2017 were larger among both children with at least one non-citizen parent and non-citizen children.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These findings suggest that the Trump administration immigration policy climate is associated with decreased health insurance enrollment among this population.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Chilling Effects On Immigrants’ Health Insurance Coverage After the 2016 Presidential Election. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2022. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health can be contacted at: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States. (Springer - www.springer.com; Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1557-1912/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting R. Frederick Lambert, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dept. of Dentistry, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Additional authors for this research include Keri E. Discepolo and Hawazin W. Elani.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-022-01349-1. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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