Politico | "Legal immigrants face loss of Obamacare help, threatening insurance markets”
Politico interviewed Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding Department of Health Policy and Management.
Politico interviewed Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, professor in the UCLA Fielding Department of Health Policy and Management, about the possible impact of reduced Affordable Care Act subsidies, including limits for legal immigrants.
The policy could also raise insurance prices for everyone, he said, since immigrants tend to be younger and use fewer health services than the general population.
“This could potentially trigger some local markets to go into death spirals,” said Bustamante, who focuses on the health impacts of immigration policy. “If you only keep unhealthy people insured, who are expected to have high utilization of services, that essentially makes insurance really expensive.”
