Report predicts growing numbers of apprehensive Latino immigrant parents will disenroll kids from public health programs
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UCLA researchers determined that the number of Latino children of immigrant parents who do not have a usual source of medical care could increase from the current level of just over 64,000 to more than 180,000. UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative |
April 7, 2021
The Trump administration’s expansion of the “public charge” rule a move that sought to disqualify immigrants who used social programs like Medicaid from obtaining legal residency in the U.S. led to widespread disenrollment from these programs and left scores of children in California without access to health care in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.