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Immigration relief for parents and youth equals whole family health coverage in California
Immigration relief for parents and youth equals whole family health coverage in California
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Schwartz, Sonya, author
Testa, Kristen Golden, author
Jose, Kristelle, author - Contributor(s):
- Georgetown University. Center for Children and Families issuing body.
Children's Partnership, issuing body. - Publication:
- Washington, DC, : Center for Children and Families, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University, July 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Emigrants and Immigrants
Insurance Coverage
California
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- (1) When fully implemented, immigration relief provides California, in particular, with an enormous opportunity to provide whole family health coverage. California is one of only a small number of states that provide state-funded health coverage to legal immigrants, including, when implemented, parents that have "Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA)" and children and young adults that have "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)" status. When expanded DACA and DAPA are federally implemented, many more immigrant parents as well as their citizen, and lawful permanent resident children who are currently uninsured will likely gain coverage. (2) Immigration relief could provide a welcome mat for parents to enroll already eligible but hard-to-reach children in health insurance programs. Many uninsured Hispanics in California worry that signing up for health insurance will draw attention to their immigration status. In addition to giving parents a reprieve from fear of deportation, immigration relief may lessen parents' fears about signing up for health insurance. (3) As many as 1.1 million parents, young adults and children living in immigrant families in California could gain health coverage if granted immigration relief. As many as 609,000 parents and 223,000 children are estimated to be uninsured and are likely eligible for Medi-Cal. DAPA parents may be eligible for state-funded Medi-Cal and citizen or lawfully residing children may be eligible for full scope Medi-Cal.2 And, up to 262,000 children and young adults are estimated to be uninsured and likely to be eligible for state-funded Medi-Cal when they are granted deferred action under the DACA program.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101676171 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101676171