title: Undocumented immigrants, left out of health reform, likely to continue to grow as a share of the uninsured.
abstract: (1) From 1999 to 2007, the number of undocumented immigrants increased from an estimated 8.5 million to 11.8 million, leading to an estimated ad­ditional 1.8 million uninsured. (2) Undocumented immigrants with incomes below 133 percent FPL are almost twice as likely to be uninsured as native-born citizens in the same income level. (3) 19.5 percent of undocumented im­migrants with incomes above 400 percent FPL are uninsured, versus 6.6 percent of native-born citizens at the same income level. (4) Undocumented immigrants will not be eligible for public insurance or private coverage obtained through exchanges under the ACA.
authors.affiliation: Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization (HCFO), USA. christina.zimmerman@academyhealth.org.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005544:Forecasting; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States