Covering the Remaining Uninsured Children
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Covering the remaining uninsured children: almost half of uninsured children live in immigrant families.
OBJECTIVE Previous authors have answered "how many children in immigrant families are uninsured"; we do not know the inverse: "how many uninsured children live in immigrant families." This paper will show the total contribution of having an immigrant parent to the uninsured rate for children in the United States. DATA SOURCE Secondary data from the 2008-2010 American Community Survey. STUDY...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Care
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0025-7079
DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000039