Medicaid Expansion Still Leaves Safety-Net Hospitals With Uninsured Immigrants

Because the health law’s provision for Medicaid expansion does not include eligibility for immigrants who are illegal or have less than five years of legal residency, an estimated 17 percent of uninsured, low-income adults will remain ineligible for government insurance and continue to burden the safety-net providers who treat them, according to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Medicaid-ineligible immigrants are unevenly distributed as a proportion of low-income uninsured adults, with the lowest in Mississippi at 3 percent and the highest in Nevada at 34 percent.

Medicaid Expansion Still Leaves Safety-Net Hospitals With Uninsured Immigrants

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