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The suspected burden that undocumented immigrants may place on the
U.S. health care system has been a flashpoint in health care and
immigration reform debates. An examination of health care spending
during 1999–2006 for adult naturalized citizens and immigrant
noncitizens (which includes some undocumented immigrants) finds
that the cost of providing health care to immigrants is lower than
that of providing care to U.S. natives and that immigrants are not
contributing disproportionately to high health care costs in public
programs such as Medicaid. However, noncitizen immigrants were
found to be more likely than U.S. natives to have a health care
visit classified as uncompensated care.
A Partisan Divide On The Uninsured [Web First]
The partisan split in Congress over health reform may reflect a
broader divide among the public in attitudes toward the uninsured.
Despite expert consensus over the harms suffered by the uninsured
as a group, Americans disagree over whether the uninsured get the
care they need and whether reform legislation providing universal
coverage is necessary. We examined public perceptions of health
care access and quality for the uninsured over time, and we found
that Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to believe that
the uninsured have difficulty gaining access to care. Senior
citizens are less aware than others of the problems faced by the
uninsured. Even among those Americans who perceive that the
uninsured have poor access to care, Republicans are significantly
less likely than Dem...
