Changes in Health Care Use Among Undocumented Patients, 2014-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The 2016 presidential campaign was marked by intensified rhetoric around the deportation of undocumented immigrants. The association of such rhetoric with primary, emergency, and inpatient care among undocumented immigrants is unclear.

Objective

To examine the association of increased anti-immigrant rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign with health care use among a group of Medicaid-ineligible patients largely composed of undocumented immigrants.

Design, setting, and participants

Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach, this cohort study analyzed health care use between January 1, 2014, and May 31, 2018, in a retrospective cohort of Medicaid and Medicaid-ineligible (>90% undocumented) adult and pediatric patients. The inflection point of i

SUBMITTER: Nwadiuko J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7936260 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature