Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children: New Census Data Highlight Importance of Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage

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Author: 
Blaney, Shannon and Leighton Ku
Year: 
2000
Month: 
October
Publisher: 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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The Census Bureau data revealed that the number of uninsured people in the general U.S. population fell in 1999, but the data also show that the health insurance coverage of low-income children and parents in immigrant families has become more precarious since the passage of the federal welfare law in 1996.

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