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Article: Childbirth top health expense for undocumented immigrants.
- Article from:
- State Health Watch
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Childbirth top health expense for undocumented immigrants
A look at health care needs of the growing number of immigrants in the United States raises questions about the financial wisdom of excluding them from routine health care, and especially prenatal care. A study published in the March 14, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association found that the largest share of emergency medical expenditures in North Carolina is for pregnancy and labor complications for undocumented immigrants.
"Providing a dollar's worth of prenatal care can save $3 of postnatal care," said Maria Youdelman, director of the National Language Access Advocacy Project of the ...