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Can We Really Offer Health Care to Everyone?

Host Scott Shafer explores the practical and perceived hurdles in providing health care to everyone, including undocumented immigrants.Guest: David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine, and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA.Guest: Gail Wilensky, senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation.

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Immigrant Health Data

View our interactive charts exploring health access statistics for immigrants, based on how long they have been in the United States. According to the data, immigrants who have been here for more than twenty years are most likely to see a doctor, yet are least likely to have a usual source for health care.
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