WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of immigrant children in the United States face obstacles to obtaining health care, including federal laws that limit their access to comprehensive health insurance and a higher likelihood of being in a low-income household. And even those who meet both income and immigration-status requirements for Medicaid and the companion Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have a higher uninsurance rate, with eligible foreign-born children three times more likely to lack coverage than U.S.-born children in the same income category in 2019.
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