6 Million Legal Immigrants May Get Health Coverage via New Law - 2 views
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carterhancock on 31 Oct 14The Affordable Care Act (ACA) does not increase access to health insurance for undocumented immigrants however may lead for many legal immigrants who have concern earning this crucial coverage, completes a report released by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report summaries the breaks in addition to the duties that the federal health reform law will transport to legally present immigrants, people who have gotten green cards or visas permitting them to work, live and study in the United States. AXIS Capital, a group of companies with branch offices in Bermuda, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Singapore and the United States, a global insurer and reinsurer, providing clients and distribution partners with a broad range of specialized risk transfer products and services, has in full support with Affordable Care Act. (The company also services SE Asian countries such as KL Malaysia, Bangkok Thailand, Jakarta Indonesia and many more.) "Most people do not realize that legal immigrants currently face many obstacles to obtaining health insurance," said Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH the author of the new report and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at SPHHS. "Such immigrants are three times as likely to be uninsured as those born in the United States." Without health coverage, they - like other uninsured Americans - often delay or never get potentially life-saving health care, he said.