Immigrants and the cost of medical care

Health Affairs

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1700-1711

  Goldman, Dana P ^a,b   Smith, James P ^c   Sood, Neeraj ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATIENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845296482     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.6.1700     Document Type: Article

References (19)

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2. S.A. Mohanty et al., "Health Care Expenditures of Immigrants in the United States: A Nationally Representative Analysis," American Journal of Public Health 95, no. 8 (2005): 1431-1438.
3. J.P. Smith and B. Edmonston, eds., The New Americans: The Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration (Washington: National Academies Press, 1997).
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5. N. Sastry et al., The Design of aMultilevel Longitudinal Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Pub no. 00-18, DRU-2400/1-LAFANS (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 2004).
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7. More details can be found in an online Technical Appendix, http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/25/6/1700/DC1.
8. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/25/6/1700/DC1 ibid.
9. J. Hadley and J. Holahan, "How Much Medical Care Do the Uninsured Use, and Who Pays for It?" Health Affairs 22 (2003): w66-w81 (published online 12 February 2003; 10.1377/hlthaff.w3.66).
10. J. Passel, R. Capps, and M. Fix, Undocumented Immigrants: Facts and Figures (Washington: Urban Institute, 2004).
11. D. Goldman, J.P. Smith, and N. Sood, "Legal Status and Health Insurance among Immigrants," Health Affairs 24, no. 6 (2005): 1640-1653.
12. J.P. Newhouse and the Insurance Experiment Group, Free for All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
13. Goldman et al., "Legal Status."
14. G. Jasso et al., "Immigration, Health-Selectivity, and Acculturation," in Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life (Washington: National Academies Press, September 2004), 227-266.
15. G. Jasso ,in Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life Ibid.
16. These data are in Online Exhibit 1, expanded from Exhibit 2 in the text to include data on pregnancy-related hospitalizations; see Note 7.
17. For details, see the online Technical Appendix; ibid.
18. Hadley and Holahan, "How Much Medical Care Do the Uninsured Use?"
19. J. Hadley and J. Holahan, "Covering the Uninsured: How Much Would It Cost?" Health Affairs 22 (2003): w250-w265 (published online 4 June 2003; 10.1377/hlthaff.w3.250).