View Research by Author - Marie Wang

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This article, from Health Affairs, shows that rising uninsurance is related to unemployment, changes in employment patterns, and rising health care costs. Two-thirds of those who lost insurance coverage in 2000-2002 were low-income adults, although job losses have affected those in the middle- and higher-income categories. (Health Affairs Web Exclusive, January 28, 2004, see www.healthaffairs.org.)

This Health Policy Online brief looks at whether the enrollment of noncitizens in Medicaid has decreased since the enactment of welfare reform. The common expectation has been that noncitizen enrollment would decrease, given that welfare reform significantly restricted Medicaid eligibility of noncitizens, barring most of them from receiving Medicaid during the first five years of living in the country unless states chose to cover them through state programs. This analysis finds that Medicaid enrollment among noncitizens did decrease after welfare reform, as intended by law, and noncitizens are much less likely than native citizens to receive Medicaid.

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