Rhetoric vs Reality on Immigrants’ Health Care Spending

This JAMA Forum discusses eligibility restrictions for emergency Medicaid coverage, cuts to health care coverage for legal immigrants, and the broader pattern of health care cuts made by the Trump administration and Congressional allies.

Corresponding Author: Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (bsommers@hsph.harvard.edu).

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