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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: An Aging Immigrant Population and the Health Policy Questions It Raises
Description: Roughly 45 million immigrants live in the United States today, a fourfold increase since the 1960s. Immigrants face unique challenges obtaining health care services. Some of the challenges are caused by explicit policies designed to limit or exclude immigrants from programs and benefits available to people born in the US. Other barriers relate to household income or the greater likelihood of having limited English proficiency.The health of immigrants in the United States is the topic of today's A Health Podyssey. Arturo Vargas Bustamante is a professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public...