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Connecting undocumented New Yorkers to coverage
Connecting undocumented New Yorkers to coverage
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- New York State Health Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : New York State Health Foundation, August 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Insurance Coverage
Undocumented Immigrants
New York
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Although health insurance coverage has expanded in New York State, a significant group of residents has been left behind: immigrants. New York State is home to one of the largest and most diverse immigrant populations in the country. One in five New Yorkers is an immigrant.1 Nearly 2 million New Yorkers are noncitizens; an estimated 1.4 million are lawfully present and an estimated 625,000 are undocumented.2 Many of these immigrant New Yorkers lack health insurance coverage. At the time of the launch of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansions, noncitizen New Yorkers had uninsured rates of more than 25%, the highest rate of any subpopulation. Noncitizens were three times more likely than citizens to lack health insurance coverage. Among immigrants, undocumented immigrants had the highest uninsured rates. Despite these challenges, State-level funding decisions in New York and the creation of the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by President Obama in 2012 provided openings to bring health insurance coverage to undocumented immigrants and to those New Yorkers enrolled in DACA (sometimes called "DACA-mented" New Yorkers). The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) made two grants to maximize the opportunities to cover the undocumented and DACA-mented New Yorkers who could be left behind by the ACA's health insurance expansions.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (12 pages))
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101770921 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101770921