Immigrants Access to Healthcare

While, overall, immigrants have a higher uninsured rate and face greater access barriers relative to U.S.-born residents, the findings in a June 2009 report from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, suggest that many immigrants eventually gain insurance and improved access to health care as they acquire language and job skills, improve their economic situation, and become more familiar with the U.S. health care system. Recent immigrants are most at risk for lacking coverage and facing access problems. As such, addressing the coverage and access barriers facing recent immigrants will be key to any effort to reduce overall disparities between immigrants and U.S.-born residents.

Posted in Employee Benefits on February 10, 2010 by admin