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The Economy of Healthcare: Disparity of Insured/Uninsured Profiles among European Immigrants in the United States

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  • Rohitha Goonatilake

    (Texas A&M International University, U.S.A.)

  • Susantha Herath

    (St. Cloud State University, U.S.A.)

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Immigration over the last seven years has been the highest for any seven-year period in the history of the United States (US), totaling 10.3 million immigrants. Of which, it is estimated that more than 50% are accounted as immigrants without legal status, according to the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington (Camarota, 2002). Data gathered in early 2000 provides a glimpse of the situation to bring in the disparity of insured and uninsured among European immigrants in the United States as the 9/11 attacks, the Obama care (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short), and the (DREAM Act of 2010) the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act have significantly changed the patterns and profiles of this phenomenon as someone would shed light on the situation. This paper compares and contrasts the extent of health insurance coverage for the citizens, naturalized citizens, and non-citizens as identified in terms of the world regions of birth, of course, for the European descendants. Finally, the analysis is concluded by examining the extent of health insurance coverage among all foreign born population based on race, educational attainment, and family income in 2005.

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  • Rohitha Goonatilake & Susantha Herath, 2016. "The Economy of Healthcare: Disparity of Insured/Uninsured Profiles among European Immigrants in the United States," Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences, Eurasian Publications, vol. 4(1), pages 1-9.
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