The Politics of Welfare Exclusion: Immigration and Disparity in Medicaid Coverage.

The rapid growth of the immigrant population in the United States, along with changes in the demographics and the political landscape, has often raised questions for understanding trends of inequality. Important issues that have received little scholarly attention thus far are excluding immigrants'...

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Publicado en:Policy Studies Journal Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 456 - 484
Autores principales: Zhu, Ling, Xu, Ping
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2015
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        Welfare eligibility
        Public welfare
        Welfare economics
        Medicaid
        Government policy
        Services for immigrants
        Medicaid eligibility
        Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
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          Welfare eligibility
          Public welfare
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          Government policy
          Services for immigrants
          International Affairs
          Emergency and Other Relief Services
          Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs)
          Health and Welfare Funds
          Other Individual and Family Services
          Medicaid eligibility
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        health care inequality
        immigrant welfare eligibility
        politics of exclusion
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        politics of exclusion
      ab: The rapid growth of the immigrant population in the United States, along with changes in the demographics and the political landscape, has often raised questions for understanding trends of inequality. Important issues that have received little scholarly attention thus far are excluding immigrants' social rights through decisive policy choices and the distributive consequences of such exclusive policies. In this article, we examine how immigration and state policies on immigrants' access to safety net programs together influence social inequality in the context of health care. We analyze the combined effect of immigration population density and state immigrant Medicaid eligibility rules on the gap of Medicaid coverage rates between native- and foreign-born populations. When tracking inequality in Medicaid coverage and critical policy changes in the post-PRWORA era, we find that exclusive state policies widen the native-foreign Medicaid coverage gap. Moreover, the effect of state policies is conditional on the size of the immigrant population in that state. Our findings suggest immigrants' formal integration into the welfare system is crucial for understanding social inequality in the U.S. states.
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