Immigration Status and Health Insurance Coverage: Who Gains? Who Loses?
Julia C. Prentice, PhD,
Anne R. Pebley, PhD and
Narayan Sastry, PhD
Julia C. Prentice is with the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research (CHQOER) at the Bedford Veteran Affairs Medical Center. She completed this work while at the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. Anne R. Pebley is in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. Anne R. Pebley and Narayan Sastry are with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif.
FIGURE 1—Survivor functions among adults aged 1864 years predicting a transition from (a) uninsurance to insurance (n = 723) and (b) insurance to uninsurance (n = 1398): Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, 20002001.
Note. Only the first observed health insurance periods were included. Periods were censored at 450 months, resulting in the exclusion of 5 people from the population analyzed in 1(a) and 4 people from that analyzed in 1(b).