Health Insurance Coverage of Immigrants
Of the 26.2 million foreign immigrants living in the US in 1998, 62.9% were noncitizens. In 1997, 34.3% of noncitizens living in America did not have health insurance coverage opposed to the 14.2% of native-born Americans who do not have health insurance coverage. Among those immigrants who became citizens, 18.5% were uninsured, as opposed to noncitizens, who are 43.6% uninsured. In each age and income group, immigrants are less likely to have health insurance.
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Are they not continually putting distemper’d corpses within you?
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