220,000 CA Youth Could Fail to Access Health Insurance Due to Immigration Status June 30th, 2011

Restrictions on programs created by the federal health reform law could prevent as many as 220,000 California children from obtaining health coverage, according to a policy brief by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports.
Key Findings

The study found that as many as 20% of uninsured California children might not enroll in health reform programs because they or their parents were not born in the U.S. Researchers estimated that about...


Read more: http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2011/6/30/reform-law-programs-could-leave-out-220k-calif-kids-report-finds.aspx#ixzz1QmbjUNAX
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