New Publications on Immigrant Health Care and Linguistic Access
In 2000, there were over 32 million foreign-born residents in the U.S. Immigrants often face barriers to health coverage and health services.
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How Race/Ethnicity, Immigration Status, and Language Affect Health Insurance Coverage, Access to and Quality of Care Among the Low-Income Population
ReportThis report examines the roles that race, language and citizenship status play in insurance coverage, access to health care and quality of health care, particularly for the low-income Latino population.
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Ensuring Linguistic Access in Health Care Settings: An Overview of Current Legal Rights and Responsibilities
ReportIn order to ensure access to care for limited English proficient residents, there are a number of federal and state laws and policies that compel publicly funded health care programs and activities to provide language access.
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Medicaid: Fiscal Challenges to Coverage
Other PostMedicaid: Fiscal Challenges to Coverage This brief policy analysis outlines key points about the current state fiscal crisis and its impact on Medicaid's health coverage role. Policy Brief (.
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Is Lack of Coverage a Short- or Long-Term Condition?
Issue BriefThis paper produces alternative estimates of the numbers of uninsured and explores the distribution of the duration of uninsured spells for people who lacked coverage at some time during a 12-month period.
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SCHIP Program Enrollment: December 2002 Update
ReportThis report presents information on the number of children enrolled in SCHIP for each state, for specific months from 1998 to December 2002. As of December 2002, the SCHIP program covered 3.7 million low-income children. An increase of 280,000 children during 2002.
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Preserving Recent Progress for Health Coverage of Children and Parents: New Tensions Emerge
ReportThe latest survey of eligibility rules and enrollment and renewal procedures in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in their Medicaid and SCHIP programs for children and parents. It reflects changes states implemented between January 2002 and April 2003. The current survey also solicited information about states premiums and cost-sharing practices.
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Medicaid Enrollment in the 50 States: A June 2002 Data Update
ReportThis publication provides state-by-state enrollment information and identifies national trends from the data. The report focuses on the five-year period from June 1997 to June 2002. In June 2002,total Medicaid enrollment in the United States reached over 38.1 million persons. This was an increase of nearly 3.