Open AccessWelfare Reform and Older Immigrants' Health Insurance Coverage
Author(s) -
Yunju Nam
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.120675
Subject(s) - medicaid , immigration , welfare , citizenship , demographic economics , welfare reform , health insurance , population , logistic regression , current population survey , medicine , demography , business , health care , environmental health , political science , economic growth , economics , sociology , law , politics
I examined changes in older immigrants' health insurance coverage after welfare reform in the United States to determine whether the reform measures achieved their goal of saving money by reducing Medicaid participation without increasing the number of uninsured people.