Although Mexican immigrants comprise just 4 percent of the U.S. population, they represent 13 percent of all uninsured people, according to a study by UCLA, UC-Berkeley and the Mexican government.
The number of uninsured Mexicans living in the U.S. has increased from 3.3 million in the mid-1990s to 6.4 million, the report said. Nearly 12 million people who were born in Mexico were living in the United States last year.
These immigrants, it said, are at considerable risk because of the obstacles they face to obtaining health insurance. It's a situation that is below the radar of most policymakers, and if it continues to be ignored, the results could be considerable both for those Mexicans living here and for the nation in general, the report's authors said.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
