Insurance and Health Care Outcomes in Regions Where Undocumented Children Are Medicaid-Eligible.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Expansion of insurance eligibility is associated with positive health outcomes. We compared uninsurance and health care utilization for (1) all children, and (2) children in immigrant families (CIF) and non-CIF who resided inside and outside of the seven US states/territories offering public health insurance to children regardless of documentation status ("extended-eligibility states/territories").

Methods

Using the cross-sectional, nationally representative National Survey of Children's Health-2019, we used survey-weighted, multivariable Poisson regression to assess the association of residence in nonextended- versus extended-eligibility states/territories with uninsurance and with health care utilization measures for (1) all children, and (2) CIF versus non-CIF,

SUBMITTER: Rosenberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature