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October 2003, Vol 93, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1680-1682
© 2003 American Public Health Association

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Eligibility for Government Insurance if Immigrant Provisions of Welfare Reform Are Repealed

Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH, Danielle H. Ferry, MS, Jennifer Edwards, DrPH and Sherry Glied, PhD

Olveen Carrasquillo is with the Division of General Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. Olveen Carrasquillo, Danielle H. Ferry, and Sherry Glied are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Jennifer Edwards is with the Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH, 622 W 168 St, PH 9E Room 105, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: oc6@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA; also known as the Welfare Reform Act) prevents states from using federal funds to provide Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) coverage for most immigrants who have resided in the United States for less than 5 years.1,2 Some states currently use "state-only" funds to provide Medicaid and SCHIP to recently arrived immigrant children, but others do not.3,4 Furthermore, although expansions of Medicaid and SCHIP to cover parents of enrolled children have been widely touted,5,6 under PRWORA, recently arrived immigrant parents would be excluded. Currently, considerable bipartisan political support . . . [Full Text]


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