What We're Learning | Evidence for Action

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Private Law Alternatives to the Individual Mandate

Dr. Epstein discusses potential strategies to increase insurance sign ups, including altering the ways insurance plans work (e.g., 5 year plans versus single year plans) or changing the ways that insurance plans are marketed (moral framing versus economic self-interest framing).

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Can moral framing drive insurance enrollment in the United States?

Results show that ads with moral framing, rather than economic self-interest framing, may lead to more Americans signing up for health insurance.

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Extending Delivery Coverage to Include Prenatal Care for Low-Income, Immigrant Women Is a Cost-Effective Strategy

Extending prenatal care to low-income, immigrant women, regardless of citizenship status, is a cost-effective and life-saving strategy.

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Bipartisan Policy Center Briefing: Overcoming Health Care Challenges in Immigrant Communities

During the Bipartisan Policy briefing, Overcoming Health Care Challenges in Immigrant Communities, panelists discussed challenges to immigrant communities accessing health care and social services—including cultural, linguistic, coverage, and other barriers—and how this impacts broader population health and well-being.

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Expanding Prenatal Care to Unauthorized Immigrant Women and the Effects on Infant Health

Prenatal care expansion increased gestational diabetes screenings, child vaccination rates, and prenatal visits, and reduced infant mortality and extremely low birth weights.

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Oregon’s Expansion of Prenatal Care Improved Utilization Among Immigrant Women

Expansion of prenatal care to undocumented immigrants led to increases in adequate care among all and high-risk pregnancies, as well as increased diagnosis of gestational diabetes, pre-existing diabetes mellitus, hypertension, history of preterm birth, and poor fetal growth.

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Immigration policies can make the difference between life and death for newborn US children

The health of citizen children born to undocumented immigrants is closely tied to local, state, and federal immigration policies.

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Immigration, Pregnancy, and Heath Insurance: New Evidence and Ongoing Debate

With approximately 1 in 15 US children born to undocumented immigrant parents, interventions expanding access to prenatal care have the potential to make a big difference to maternal and child health.

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Expanding Prenatal Care to Unauthorized Immigrant Women and the Effects on Infant Health

Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrant women resulted in more prenatal visits, receipt of adequate prenatal care, and increases in diabetes screenings and ultrasonograms. Children were also more likely to attend well child visits and get vaccinations.

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Breaking Down Barriers to Preventive Care

Unauthorized immigrants are mostly left out of the Affordable Care Act and are often unable to access or afford medical care. Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrants positively impacts the health of both the mothers and their citizen children.

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What Happens When States Offer Prenatal Care Coverage to Unauthorized Immigrants?

When states offer prenatal care coverage to unauthorized immigrants women get the care they need and babies get healthier.

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