Health insurance and the undocumented

A recent RAND study concludes that undocumented migrants constitute a substantial share of the nationwide increase in the number of people without health insurance.  The study finds that the number of uninsured adults in the United States grew by about 8.7 million between 1980 and 2000. Extrapolating from trends in Los Angeles County, the authors conclude that about a third of that growth nationwide can be attributable to undocumented immigrants.  The link to the abstract is here.  And here is the article from today’s Washington Post. -jmc