Finds that policies designed to reduce language barriers and legal immigrants' fears of receiving health benefits helped expand coverage for low-income citizen children with immigrant parents between 1999 and 2002, but that coverage rates for these children are still below children with citizen parents. Very low rates of coverage offered by immigrants' employers increases significance of whether or not access to public coverage is available.
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