Health Care

Explore all research, analysis, commentary, and data on the role of immigrants in the health-care workforce, their health coverage and policies relating to provision of health care, as well as health conditions they face.

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Protecting Overseas Workers: Lessons and Cautions from the Philippines

An ambitious overseas worker protection system in the Philippines expands safeguards for migrants but also entails risks related to weak oversight, and fee-based financing.

Securing the Future: U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader

Why Immigrants Lack Adequate Access to Health Care and Health Insurance

Nearly half of noncitizens in the United States lacked health insurance in 2004, driven by limited employer offers and 1996 welfare reform restrictions on public coverage.

Health Insurance Coverage of the Foreign Born in the United States: Numbers and Trends

Foreign-born residents are far more likely to lack health insurance coverage than the U.S. born. But the longer immigrants live in the United States, the more coverage rates improve.

International Agreements of the Social Security Administration

Bilateral Social Security agreements eliminate dual taxation and help transnational workers qualify for benefits. This fact sheet examines a possible U.S.-Mexico totalization deal.

Immigrants and Welfare Reform: Glossary

A glossary of key terms for U.S. noncitizen welfare eligibility under the 1996 welfare reform law.

Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Coming Reauthorization Vote

With reauthorization due by September 2002, the U.S. Senate favored restoring noncitizen welfare benefits cut in 1996, while the House and White House proposed no restorations.