Posted on 02/19/2019 1:31:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act cut in half the percentage of low-income, uninsured Californians under age 65, from 23 percent in 2013 to 11 percent in 2016-17. But federal law bars undocumented residents from federally funded Medicaid health services and from purchasing health insurance on the ACA Marketplaces. This leaves them the largest group of uninsured people in California, according to a new study by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
The study reports that of the 2.2 million undocumented people living in the state, three in five are low income and of those, nine in 10 are uninsured. In comparison, about one in 10 U.S.-born and documented low-income residents in the state is uninsured. The study defines low income as earnings at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level ($16,754 for a single person; $34,638 for a household of four in 2018).
“Federal law is creating a class of people who would otherwise be able to access health care,” said Nadereh Pourat, director of the center’s Health Economics & Evaluation Research Program and lead author of the study. “We have left a significant number of low-income California residents without an affordable way to get preventive and primary care services because of their legal status.”
Relatively healthy, but less likely to receive care when needed
Low-income undocumented adults in California are relatively young, relatively healthy, and likely to be working, according to the study.
Using 2016 and 2017 California Health Interview Survey data for adults ages 19 to 64, authors of the study found that, compared to U.S.-born and documented low-income residents in the state, undocumented low-income adults are more likely to be 26 to 44 years of age (56 percent vs. 19 percent), be in families with children (63 percent vs. 37 percent), and employed (67 percent vs. 60 percent). They are less likely to have multiple chronic health conditions (26 percent vs. 42 percent).
Pourat said that to maintain health, people need timely access to affordable care. But the current study reports the undocumented are more likely to lack a regular source of care (44 percent vs. 24 percent of U.S.-born and documented people) and to have gone without preventive care in the past year (38 percent vs. 21 percent).
“All Californians benefit from improving access as a means of preventing disease and improving our residents’ health,” Pourat said.
The study was supported by the California Health Care Foundation.
They’re illegals a-holes.
Illegals can’t get free health care?
Call a wahh-mbulance.
They should be allowed to apply for free healthcare at the local deportation office.
Good. They should be.
Oh...and BTW, they're unwelcome illegals not 'undocumented adults'.
BUT?
This isn't BUT.
This is the law.
Total baloney.
Hell, they simply go to the Emergency Room and get 100% free healthcare— no monthly premiums, no deductibles, no copays.
Ain’t life grand?
Good, let’s lock them out of the country.....................
Not locked out of the emergency room though.
As it should be ...
You know... I might not be the smartest person in the world, but I really DO have to wonder just when, exactly it was, that news sharticles like this one—ones written from the point-of-view of not only not batting an eye about someone else’s outrageous sense of entitlement, but indeed, NORMALISING that sort of attitude, became a thing?
Translated headline: Barbarian Invaders Can’t Afford Doctors.
Aw, so sad, too bad.
Maybe they should have gone further north, to Canada where it is all free.
Or east to Cuba or south to Venezuela
How does it feel that Illegals (undocumented) have more rights,benefits and advocacy than most American citizens? America is rapidly imploding.
First of all, they are not Californians, the article begins with a lie. How much healthcare did they get in their place of origin?
The Unaffordable Care Act resulted in every taxpayer subsidizing the health costs of people from other countries.
Time for Gavin Newsom to ride in on the white pony
One can only surmise that this wouldn’t have been an integral part of their ‘Let’s Invade Gringoland’ plan ?
They can “access health care” any time they want. All they have to do is go to the doctor or urgent care, and they will never pay for it, but never be denied care.
This article (and the whole theme related to trying to force us to have sympathy for illegals) just makes me angry (and those are the “nice” words - I would be banned if I used the language that comes to mind....).
US taxpayers and citizens on the hook for healthcare to anyone in the world who wants it. And let them vote too. Tear down this bit$# of a country that took 200 years and wars to build. That’s what the LEFT wants.
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