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Health Care Reform |
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INFORMATION
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Improving Immigrant Access to Affordable Health Coverage: Analysis of
the Massachusetts Health Care System as a Model. Although
Massachusetts serves as a promising model for how federal health care
reform can address the needs of immigrants, improvements to the model
are also needed. (PDF, 5/27/09) |
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TALKING POINTS:
Health Reform Proposals Should Ensure that All Workers Have a Level
Playing Field and Can Contribute Toward Affordable Coverage for
Themselves and Their Families (PDF, 5/27/09) |
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Health Care Expenditures for Immigrants Are Lower Than for Citizens.
Immigrants use less health care, on average; they are far less likely to
be offered employer-sponsored health coverage; despite their high
workforce participation rate, they are more likely to be uninsured; they
are less likely to use emergency rooms. (PDF, 5/27/09) |
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Principles of Immigrant Integration
in Health Care Reform (compiled by the Coalition for
Immigrant Equity in Health Care:
APIAHF,
CIPC,
KRC,
MALDEF,
NAKASEC,
NILC,
NCLR,
NYIC, &
SEARAC). "[These]
principles should be hallmarks of any policies, campaigns, or messages
promoting health care reform in the U.S. and reflect American values of
fairness, opportunity, and community." (11/26/08) |
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ACTION ALERTS |
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Wed., Jan. 13, 2010 |
Congress
Must Not Leave Out Immigrants in Final Health Care Bill |
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Tue., Nov. 10, 2009 |
Affordable
Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962): The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly for Immigrants |
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Wed., Oct. 21, 2009 |
TELL
CONGRESS TO TREAT IMMIGRANTS FAIRLY
Health Reform Must Open Medicaid to Legal Immigrants |
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Tue., Aug. 25, 2009 |
NO MORE
WAITING FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE!!
End all waiting periods for affordable health care options for
legal immigrants in health care reform now! |
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Fri., July 24, 2009 |
ENOUGH is
ENOUGH
Strong Response Needed to Prevent Congress from Shutting Legal
Immigrants out of Health Care Reform |
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Tue., July 7, 2009 |
Tell
Congress This Week to Include in Health Care Reform the Health
Equity and Accountability Act of 2009 (H.R. 3090) |
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Mon., June 29, 2009 |
CALLS
NEEDED: Tell Congress That Immigrants and Kids Deserve Fairness
in Health Reform |
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Mon., June 15, 2009 |
CALLS
NEEDED: Immigrants Need Equal Access to Health Care under Senate
HELP Legislation! |
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NON-NILC
INFORMATION |
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Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake? (By Randy
Capps, Marc R. Rosenblum, and Michael Fix; Migration Policy Institute,
Oct. 2009).
"[P]rovides a roadmap of the key health reform issues, focusing . . . on
two populations likely to remain at the center of policy debates: [LPRs]
with less than five years of legal residency, and unauthorized
immigrants. [A]ddresses legal immigrants' eligibility for Medicaid and
health insurance subsidies and their inclusion in individual mandates,
and strategies for screening out unauthorized immigrants." (Link posted 10/14/09) |
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The "Healthy
Migrant" Effect (By Katherine Fennelly, PhD, excerpted from
Healthy Generations,
Vol. 5, Issue 3, Feb.
2005, published by the
Center for Leadership Education in
Maternal & Child Public Health, University of Minnesota
School of Public Health. Dr. Fennelly is co-editor of Healthy
Generations.) (Link posted 12/22/08) |
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Five Basic Facts About Immigrants
and Their Health Care (Kaiser Family Foundation, 3/08).
(Link posted 12/22/08) |
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Immigrants in the U.S. Health Care
System: Five Myths That Misinform the American Public (By
Meredith King Ledford, published by: Center for American Progress,
6/7/07). (Link posted 12/22/08) |
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The Role of Employer-Sponsored
Health Coverage for Immigrants: A Primer (Kaiser Family
Foundation, 7/06). (Link posted 12/22/08) |
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Resources on Immigrants and Health
Care Coverage (Link to a page containing links to resources
compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Kaiser Commission on Medicaid
and the Uninsured.) (Link posted 3/19/08)
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Issue Briefs and Other Resources |
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Immigrants and Health Care: At the
Intersection of Two Broken Systems. "For recent
immigrants [to the U.S.] -- especially the estimated 12 million who are
here illegally -- seeking health care often involves daunting encounters
with a fragmented, bewildering, and hostile system."
(Perspective/analysis by Susan Okie, M.D., in The New England Journal
of Medicine, 8/9/07.) |
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Language Access in Health Care
Statement of Principles (2007). "[A] diverse group of
interested stakeholders developed these principles. The intent is
to provide a broad framework to inform efforts to improve health care
delivered to limited English proficient individuals." (Posted 11/26/08)
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Immigrants and the U.S. Health Care
System (PDF) (Prepared by CIPC, the California Immigrant
Policy Center, 9/06). Immigration restrictionists in the
U.S. often accuse immigrants of using health care services
for which they are not eligible or of using them more than everyone
else. Generally, however, such accusations are unsubstantiated and
based on uninformed assumptions. This issue brief provides
research-based information about immigrants' use of health care in the
U.S. |
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Facts About Immigrants' Low Use of
Health Services and Public Benefits (9/29/06) |
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Language Barriers to Health Care in
the United States (Perspective/analysis by Glenn Flores,
M.D., in The New England Journal
of Medicine, 7/20/06) |
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Unequal Access: Immigrants and U.S.
Health Care (7/06) (A report by Sarita A. Mohanty, M.D.,
M.P.H., for the Immigration Policy Center's Immigration Policy in
Focus, July 2006). From the IPC's summary of the report:
"Some policymakers have called for [even more stringent] limits on
immigrants' access to health insurance, particularly Medicaid . . . .
However, policies that restrict immigrants' access to some health care
services lead to the inefficient and costly use of other services (such
as emergency room care) and negatively impact public health. The future
economic success of the United States depends on a healthy workforce.
Therefore, policies must be devised that improve, rather than restrict,
immigrants' access to quality health care." |
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Language Barriers Pose a Risk for
California HMO Enrollees (5/06) (A research brief
published by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research) |
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Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services Issues Final Guidance on Reimbursing
Health Care Providers for Emergency Services to Uninsured Immigrants (5/23/05) (PDF) |
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, "Proposed
Implementation Approach: Federal Funding of Emergency Health Services
Furnished to Undocumented Aliens: Federal Fiscal Years 2005 through 2008"
(7/21/04)(PDF)
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NILC comments re:
Federal reimbursement of emergency health services provided to
undocumented immigrants (6/10/04) (PDF) |
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Comprehensive Health Care for Immigrants: A Sound Strategy for Fiscal
and Public Health (4/04) (PDF) |
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Prenatal
Coverage for Immigrants Through the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP) (6/03)
(PDF) |
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Immigrant-Friendly
Health Coverage Outreach and Enrollment (6/02) (PDF) |
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National
Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health
Care, Office of Minority Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human
Services (12/22/00) |
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Immigrants' Rights Update Articles
(back
to IRU index) |
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Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services Issues Final
Guidance on Reimbursing Health Care Providers for Emergency Services to
Uninsured Immigrants (6/30/05) |
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Colorado
Legislature Votes to Restore Medicaid Eligibility for Immigrants (2/10/05) |
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CMS Still Has Not Finalized Process
for Health
Care Provider Reimbursement under "Section 1011" (9/21/04) |
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Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services Details Proposed Process for Distributing
Emergency Services Reimbursement Funds (8/9/04) |
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Connecticut Restores State-Funded Benefits
to Immigrants (6/18/04) |
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Bill Requiring Hospitals
to Report Undocumented
Persons Defeated (6/18/04) |
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GAO Reports
on Uncompensated Care to Undocumented Immigrants
(6/18/04) |
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House
Rejects Bill to Require Health Providers to Report Undocumented Patients to the
Government (5/20/04) |
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Momentum for Immigrant Amendments
Builds as TANF Bill Is Extended for Three Months without Change
(5/20/04) (posted under
"Congressional Developments") |
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Montejo Gaspar Montejo v. Martin Memorial Medical Center
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Florida
Court Reverses Ruling Permitting Hospital to Repatriate Undocumented Patient
(5/20/04) |
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Benito Luna
v. Division of Social Services |
N.C. Appeals
Court Overturns Decision Denying Medicaid Coverage of Chemotherapy as
Treatment for Emergency Condition (2/17/04) |
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Soskin v. Reinertson | 10th Circuit Panel
Upholds Colorado's Authority to Terminate Medicaid for Thousands of Immigrants
(2/17/04) |
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ICHIA Provisions Stripped from Medicare Bill Signed
by President (12/18/03) |
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Scottsdale
Healthcare, Inc. v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration |
"Emergency Medical Condition" Given Generous Interpretation
by Arizona Court (9/4/03) |
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Senate Rejects Effort to Revoke the
Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act (7/15/03) (posted under
"Congressional Developments") |
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Soskin v.Reinertson |
District Court Enjoins
Colorado's Termination of Immigrants' Medicaid Eligibility (4/8/03) |
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U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition Releases
Report on the Cost of Unreimbursed Hospital Care to Undocumented Persons
(11/22/02) |
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HHS Issues Final Regulations Granting SCHIP to
Fetuses (10/21/02) |
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HHS Issues Guidance on the Five-Year Bar in Medicaid
and SCHIP (10/21/02) |
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Federal Responsbility for Immigrant Health Act
Introduced (5/10/02) |
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HHS Proposes Rule Making Fetuses Eligible for
SCHIP (5/10/02) |
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New York Extends Immigrants' Eligibility for Health
Programs (10/8/01) |
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Interim Final SCHIP Regulations Issued; Two New
Provisions May Jeopardize Immigrants' Access (8/31/01) |
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Texas AG Issues Opinion That County Hospitals
Not Allowed to Serve "Not Qualified" Immigrants (8/31/01) |
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Aliessa et al. v. Novello |
N.Y. Law Restricting
Immigrants' Eligibility for State Medical Aid Found Unconstitutional
(6/29/01) |
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Lewis v. Grinker |
2d Circuit Rules That
States May Deny Prenatal Care to "Not Qualified" Immigrants (6/29/01) |
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"Healthy
Solutions" Initiative Launched, Bipartisan Proposals to Restore Benefits
Introduced (3/29/01) (posted under
"Congressional Developments") |
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House Version of Immigrant Childrens
and Pregnant Womens Health Care Bill Introduced (7/26/00)
(posted under "Congressional Developments") |
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Lewis, et al. v. Grinker, et al. |
Lewis Judge Rules That Use of PRWORA Provision
to Deny Prenatal Care Violates Due Process (2/11/00) |
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HCFA Confirms Only
Applicants for Medicaid Need Provide an SSN or Disclose Immigration Status
(10/26/98) |
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Settlement Reached
in Medi-Cal "Debt" Reimbursement Case (9/16/98) |