States with more migrants see greater loss of health coverage

A recent analysis found that Medicaid eligibility policies and practices in Colorado and other states caused tens of thousands of people to lose their Medicaid, primarily in counties with larger immigrant populations.

Esther Reyes, Campaign Strategist for the organization Protection for Immigrant Families-PIF, explains some of the findings of the study they conducted.

She explains that living in a state with a larger immigrant population was more likely to lose coverage.
He details that there are still many barriers to accessing health coverage for our communities.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas, states representing 50% of the total U.S. population and 68% of the foreign-born population, she says they found about the loss of health coverage. Esther reports that in the study, Texas came out as the state with the highest number of migrants affected.

In contrast, in the state of California there were efforts to prevent immigrants from losing their health coverage.
She talks about other cases such as Florida and Colorado.

Esther Reyes, explains that there were mistakes made by the human resources agencies of the states, such as not sending notices to renew medical coverage.

She indicates that there are other obstacles in states with larger migrant populations, let’s listen to Esther Reyes.

Another barrier is that there is a lack of information to be able to be more accurate in medical care.

Finally, it relates the risks and impacts on the community if health insurance is not available.

This office is sponsored in part by The Colorado Trust.