Researchers at University of Missouri Have Reported New Data on Insurance (Medicaid Health Insurance Coverage Among the Foreign-born Following Aca Implementation: Disparities By Migration Status): Insurance

2023 AUG 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on Insurance have been presented. According to news reporting originating in Columbia, Missouri, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Estimating the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion on health coverage in the foreign-born population is complicated by the inability of most national-level surveys to measure the migration status-and thus eligibility for public programs-of foreign-born residents, especially those who are not naturalized U.S. citizens. Using a combined-sample multiple imputation (CSMI) approach, we leverage the large sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) and impute migration status using the 2008 and 2014 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the only nationally representative survey to include any proxies for migration status.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Missouri, “Multivariate difference-in-differences models suggest that Medicaid expansion increased the odds of Medicaid coverage among eligible immigrants. Medicaid expansion, however, was not associated with changes in Medicaid coverage rates for non-Lawful Permanent Residents (non-LPRs, a group that consists overwhelmingly of unauthorized immigrants). Disparities in Medicaid coverage persist across migration status groups following the ACA, particularly as the unauthorized remain excluded from expansion, subsidies, and the ACA marketplace.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The results have implications for health and immigration policy reform.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Medicaid Health Insurance Coverage Among the Foreign-born Following Aca Implementation: Disparities By Migration Status. Population Research and Policy Review, 2023;42(4). Population Research and Policy Review can be contacted at: Springer, Van Godewijckstraat 30, 3311 Gz Dordrecht, Netherlands. (Springer - www.springer.com; Population Research and Policy Review - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0167-5923/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Claire E. Altman, University of Missouri, Dept. of Health Sciences, Columbia, MO 65211, United States. Additional authors for this research include Christal Hamilton, James D. Bachmeier and Cody Spence.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-023-09814-x. 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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