TY - JOUR
T1 - Out-of-Pocket Expenditures and the Financial Burden of Healthcare Among Older Adults
T2 - By Nativity and Length of Residence in the United States
AU - Choi, Sunha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2015/2/17
Y1 - 2015/2/17
N2 - Newly arrived older immigrants in the United States tend to be greatly affected by increasing out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures due to their limited insurance options. To examine such disparities in the out-of-pocket expenditures, this study analyzed the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey by immigrant status. Major findings of this study indicated that although recent immigrants had lower total healthcare expenditures, they spent much higher proportions of their annual income on out-of-pocket medical payments, compared with their US-born counterparts. Dramatically higher out-of-pocket burdens among recent immigrants represent a barrier to necessary healthcare, which needs to be addressed from both public health and economic perspectives.
AB - Newly arrived older immigrants in the United States tend to be greatly affected by increasing out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures due to their limited insurance options. To examine such disparities in the out-of-pocket expenditures, this study analyzed the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey by immigrant status. Major findings of this study indicated that although recent immigrants had lower total healthcare expenditures, they spent much higher proportions of their annual income on out-of-pocket medical payments, compared with their US-born counterparts. Dramatically higher out-of-pocket burdens among recent immigrants represent a barrier to necessary healthcare, which needs to be addressed from both public health and economic perspectives.
KW - healthcare expenditures
KW - older immigrants
KW - out-of-pocket burden
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84922448249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01634372.2014.943447
DO - 10.1080/01634372.2014.943447
M3 - Article
C2 - 25036656
AN - SCOPUS:84922448249
SN - 0163-4372
VL - 58
SP - 149
EP - 170
JO - Journal of Gerontological Social Work
JF - Journal of Gerontological Social Work
IS - 2
ER -