The differential treatment of Cuban and Mexican immigrants in the U.S. public health system
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https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X.1215Keywords:
Public care system,, United States, immigrants, Cuban, MexicanAbstract
This paper examines the participation of the public health care system in a broader societal construction of Mexican immigrants as undeserving of public health benefits. I show that financial shortfalls due to the implementation of Medicaid managed care (MMC) in a public hospital in New Mexico led the Hospital to devise further categories of “undeserving” subjects in order to ration care. Such policies-predicated upon a neoliberal assessment of immigrants’ perceived self-reliance-teach Mexican immigrants that they are “second-class citizens” and have profound consequences for their health status as well.
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