| Nearly one-quarter (23.8 percent) of the 70.9 million children under the age of 17 in 2009 had at least one immigrant parent. |
American Community Survey and Census Data on the Foreign Born by State
Politics aside, there is no doubt that the changing face of America will have a significant impact on our healthcare system. In fact, that impact is already being felt in every town, city and state throughout the country.
While the immigrant population of the United States increased by 7.4 million between 2000 and 2009, the impact of this growth varied considerably from state to state in terms of population size and characteristics. To facilitate analysis of these differences, the graphic below provides national and state-by-state data on immigrant populations from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses and the 2009 American Community Surveys (ACS).
How many immigrants in the United States have health insurance? According to the 2009 American Community Survey, 51.1 percent of the 38.1 million civilian non-institutionalized immigrant population had private health insurance and 21.3 percent had public health insurance coverage; the rest (33.6 percent) had neither. In contrast, only 12.5 percent of the US-born population had no health insurance.
How many immigrants in various legal statuses have health insurance? According to MPI estimates, immigrants accounted for 29 percent of the 46.6 million working-age adults and children under 18 with no health insurance in 2008. Of these 13.4 million uninsured immigrants, about half (6.8 million) were unauthorized immigrants, almost a third (4.2 million) were lawful permanent residents, and another 17 percent (2.3 million) were naturalized citizens.
Unauthorized working-age adults (ages 18 to 64) were about three times more likely to be uninsured (59 percent) than either naturalized citizens (20 percent) or native-born US citizens (16 percent).
Data published by the Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC. |
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