Refugee resettlement patterns and state-level health care insurance access in the United States

P. Agrawal and A.K. Venkatesh

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 4, 662-663

Abstract: We sought to evaluate the relationship between state-level implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and resettlement patterns among refugees.We linked federal refugee resettlement data to ACA expansion data and found that refugee resettlement rates are not significantly different according to state-level insurance expansion or cost. Forty percent of refugees have resettled to states without Medicaid expansion. The wide state-level variability in implementation of the ACA should be considered by federal agencies seeking to optimize access to health insurance coverage among refugees who have resettled to the United States.

Keywords: economics; government; health care delivery; health care planning; health care policy; health insurance; human; legislation and jurisprudence; medicaid; organization and management; population research; refugee; retrospective study; statistics and numerical data; United States, Censuses; Health Insurance Exchanges; Health Plan Implementation; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Medicaid; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Refugees; Retrospective Studies; State Government; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.303017

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